Read sect 4.BB.7. It says any extension into free time at base is payed at 150% for the first 12 CH and 200% for anything over 12 CH. No limit to how much they can extend you. Now, we have a limit.

 

I have a better one! Jun '01, I have R24. I was assigned a 2 day trip to start on a Sat, the 5th of 15 consec. R days, over 36 hrs in advance. About 24hrs in advance, Training bumped me off the trip. I was then assigned a 6 day trip on the Sunday, that ended with a DH out of ANC. Once on the trip, I was extended 4 more day to get back to MEM on the final R-Day near midnight. After looking at my pay, after being extended, I saw that I got RLG credit for the 2 day trip that I was bumped from. That trip footprint overlapped the trip I eventually flew by 24hrs. They had assigned a RSV trip overlapping time I was already getting credit, so I contacted Contact Admin. That trip went from a 6 day RSV assigned to a 10 day RSV trip, to a 6 day DFT trip exteded 4 days with the last 2 at 200% (66hr trip worth 138hrs). I was dropping trips left and right for the rest of the year!

 

We have a limit now gents. I can't tell you how many times I've told them no to an extension for whatever reason. You call them on it and they back down. There something that even scheduling knows and that is your days off are yours (they have days off too). Now they will use the 48/96. They just will.

I have an idea. We need Bob C to get a side letter of agreement on this clarifying all our issues and limit the company to being able to do this only once a month and allow you to drop trips to make up for the inconvenience (remember when they're lean they deny drops 'insufficient reserves.') Pow! Done!

 

Would you please give the section that says we can turn down an extension in the field.

 

You just just say no. Watch what happens. It's all a negotiation. There's a lot of things that we as pilots assume are so but if you call the comapny on it they will back down. Just spoke to someone yesterday who was on reserve, and they wanted to extend him in the field a couple of days and he said he had things to do on his days off. Guess what? He got his days off. Maybe there's an implied decency (a visceral truth) in not making you work on your days off. With the new TA that's gone. Let's get a side letter of agreement so they can't do this more than once a month (i.e. like floating rday).

 

""]I agree 100%. I've been extended before and there is no limit. Now there will be. Stop making such a big issue about stuff you don't seem to be familiar with. Did you notice mach84 and oilpressure joined about the same time and each sound exactly alike? Minor issues that are distorted to make them sound terrible. Are you a FedEx pilot? Do you even know what's in the current contract? Have you read the current contract?""



The TA is the current contract, with minor changes. An agency Shop Industry shame.