Originally Posted by
177RG
Thst means that the Flight Qualified Supervisors can either fly the route as ordered or be fired. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
The filed route did not take them through the AMU. They were offered and accepted a short cut by ATC on the outbound leg and leg back. Only when one of the pilots ACARSed the dispatcher and asked why they weren't filed a more direct route were they told by the dispatcher the reasoning for the original route.
Had they flown the original route or consulted dispatch prior to accepting the shortcut, everything would've been fine. Not ATC responsibility to know UPS OPSpecs