The FO's did a decent job of staying off the majority of the Disputes for AUG during the VTO process, but as of the Open Time food fest all the big pairings are taken voluntarily. Not surprisingly by mostly high number employees. The Captains are just as bad.

We will never learn will we ?

MEM MD

Trips 35/27AUG, 577/6SEP, 68/16SEP, 279/18SEP and 282/11SEP

plus all 3 leg AM out and backs 404 and 405 are disputed.

Go check these trips and see if any of your "friends" are helping the team.

 

2cyl,
looks like all the DP trips are full except for 35/27aug? I see that one's still open...
Z

 

Guys can't get the message !

We are losing the battle, we will continue to get crappy pairings and resulting lines when guys can't see past their own needs to "improve" their low seniority ! (general statement on the majority of DP flyers, and of course non members !)

 

There is one very junior Mem MD11 FO who dropped RA to pick up a bunch of the disputed 404/405 3 leg am OB's....stupid.

 

Everything you need to know about MD-11 MEM September Disputed Pairings

#35, #577 - These pairings have multiple issues. In addition to being 11-13 days in length with only one reset, the issue of the rolling body clock is a problem. There are day-night-day-night or day-day-night-night patterns without intervening resets. We want to see resets before swapping the body clock. Finally, cumulative fatigue builds up at arrival to KIX where there is a short layover before a Pacific crossing. We attempted to dispute pairing 22 for the same reasons however, the company found that this sequence has been previously flown.

35/27Aug

577/06Sep

#68 - In addition to the use of the RFO on the IND-STN-CDG long-leg, short-leg sequence, this pairing has other issues. It is a 13-day pairing transiting 30 time zones with only one reset followed by hubturns in Asia. Reliability may be affected as well with the trip starting with a DH to ANC on the last flight of the day with no backups to a relatively short turn.


68/16Sep

#279, #282 - These pairings cross the Atlantic three times and then do a hubturn in Europe before getting a reset. We feel that this style is at risk of cumulative sleep deficit. We recommend resetting in EWR after the second ocean crossing but no later than before operating the hubturn.

279/18Sep

282/11Sep


#404, #405 - These pairings are three-leg a.m. out-and-backs scheduled to return at 0953 LBT, seven minutes before the 1000 LBT contractual limit. We believe this is unrealistic due to potential departure delays in IAH and arrival delays into DFW. Additionally, it is scheduled with only a one-hour turn in DFW.


404/28Aug
404/29Aug
404/30Aug
404/31Aug

405/05Sep
405/06Sep
405/07Sep

405/11Sep
405/12Sep
405/13Sep
405/14Sep

405/18Sep
405/19Sep
405/20Sep
405/21Sep

405/25Sep
405/26Sep
405/27Sep
405/28Sep

 

Boy, it must be nice to be absolutely flawless! To sit back and throw stones at your bretheren with as much ease as taking a breath. Why don't you try to give your compadres at least a little benefit of the doubt before you cast aspersions; perhaps they didn't get the SIG notes, perhaps they were on Mil leave and missed them...there are many viable excuses. Now, picking up a DP knowingly is, of course, inexcusable, but come on, take it easy. Don't forget the parable of the gentleman living in a glass house... But when you never make a mistake I suppose those wise words don't apply.
-SM

 

This should get interesting. Close cover before strike.

 

UN-ACCEPTABLE!!!

 

There is NO excuse! The SIG letter is ALWAYS on ALPA's website, and should always be referenced before blindly grabbing trips out of open time, either in the View Add window for Secondary lines, CIC, etc, or during midnight madness when open time is released. It took me 10 mins to do all of the cutting and pasting for my above posting, including visiting https://crewroom.alpa.org/FDX/Deskto...cumentID=39414 to get the cut and past from the Sig notes. It shouldn't take more than a couple mins to log onto ALPA prior to making your inputs for your next month's schedule. NO EXCUSE!

How's that for a stone?

 

This sounds suspiciously like YOUR name is on the list?*!