FDX: Why No Block Display?
 

It looks like the company is hiding Block Display information. When I go to that page, the information is blank. Not sure it's related, but the Positive Airman List is also unaccessible. What's up?

Not sure which block you're looking for. Not a VTO line is it? :o

Seems to me someone brought this up last month also.

No Block Display
 

I talked to Gail today about this. According to her, the company has changed the monthly bid program and this feature is gone.

More ways the company is helping you.

Part of their helpful 4a2b policy.

Saw an e-mail response from an official source. Changes to the bid processing made it go away and it ain't coming back because there is no contractual requirement for them to provide it.

Is anything ever done out of goodwill -- ever?

PIPE

Ding....Ding.....Ding....Ding....!!
 

We have a winner!

Answer to your question: HeXX NO! (at least not from the company's side)

This is the heart of our problem as a pilot group.

We keep thinking that if we just show enough "good will" and keep bailing the company out all the time (Draft, Volunteer, flying fatigued - just one more leg...) - that somehow, some day, some way the company will reciprocate and throw us a bone every now and then.

What "good will" has the company shown us since we signed the contract? any examples are welcome???

exactly.....just the opposite:

4.A.2.b.

making a point to explain how the schedules are NOT being optimized - "we're just abiding by the parameters of the contract as agreed to by both parties" (to paraphrase "O" in his now-famous "Optimizer Myth" email)

abusing the R-24 intent with hotel standbys

The only way that any of this will ever stop is if the pilot group (as a whole) stops offering "good will" bailouts to the company and "abides by the parameters of the contract as agreed to by both parties"

Unless we do that.........nothing will change.... :mad:

Whatever happened to keeping guys on long term mil leave in the computer for CASS jumpseating? Small problem, easy fix.

Whatever happened to fixing the deviate on one leg and all legs are canceled problem for DHs? Small problem, easy fix.

Why has there been a need to file so many grievances? Big problem, easy fix.


Looks like a new sheriff is in town. Lots of money and manhours are being spent going over expense reports with a fine toothed comb. No effort is being expended on cost neutral initiatives.

I think our union is too worried about rocking the boat with the company to force a restoration of a service they once provided. We see union officers and committee chairman cross to management all the time which leads me to assume the union will never really engage management in a meaningful way for fear of losing the conduit they currently have into a management position. LK is the most recent example but others are out there, and this inability to access Block Display is the next, although tiny step in degradation of QOL to all of us.