Originally Posted by
Malter
Anyone interested in "VIPS SERVER BUSY" or the mysterious Reserve system that the individual schedulers run at his/her whim, or trip trades that take two days, or the idea that discipline protection when commuting to work ONLY applies to FDX aircraft from your "staging" location when listed as "staging"? Are you commuters aware of this last one? So if I'm a Miami commuter, and I happen to be in Tampa commuting on a FDX aircraft and the flight cancels or diverts, I get a letter! Or if I am commuting from my staging location and listed as "business" (like our System Chief Pilot told us to do at a hub turn meeting) and the flight does not make it, I get a letter!
This is some of the crap that needs to be addressed.........
I got news for you, commuting protections are not gonna get better, wake up and smell the coffee. Congress HAS mandated that commuting be addressed in form a a law. I suggest you send those concerns to Washington, through your Congressman, before you have anyone waste their breath or time trying to improve staging rules that will probably get overridden by some stupid law.
Get eductated and act everyone, that law passed due to the Buffalo crash is not even close to being done with implementing wide ranging changes.
Including, BTW, the good part, a sweeping change to FAR's, which is certainly a part of this TA decision process. I read the Fedex comments on the rules, if you think we would see any movement on double digit pay raises, lump payments that can buy a car or anything else in the big sections done before this storm has passed, we are smoking some stuff the dude might like!