Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Yep. 19 (NINETEEN) days on from December to January with 1 (ONE) day off. Finally got my first short call day since November. Can't sit short call when you're always given your next trip before your current rotation finishes ... learned underwear from South America does not come in sizes that don't chafe the average American. (with my Ron White Voice) that laundry, she's just a spinnin.
Crew Scheduling, isn't. A computer assigns trips, humans track down pilots and make notifications. No intelligence, or judgment, is used.
From what I read the human is going to be somewhat taken out of the equation. Might as well just hook the computer to a interface that sends out messages and logs acknowledgments.
Oh yeah.
I flew from mid Nov to Mid Dec without a break and then just finished five days of flying. Reroutes to boot. We got a big op and lots of items that need to be fixed.
Customer Service needs to be a top priority or this whole merger experiment will not stand the stress test.
As for Scheduling:
Lets put it this way, I called them in early Dec to advice them of a possible FAR issue, was told I was wrong, and then as soon as I pushed back on the rotation I was flagged for a possible violation. Seems many of the schedulers trust the computer and do not have a working knowledge of the FAR's and PWA and how each impacts the other. Needless to say I got to talk to the scheduler I talked to the night before and worked it all out.
They are over worked up there. I do feel their pain.