Broken plane in the system, was assigned a Fedex j/s to reposition for the next operating leg. My question is: can we claim the accepted fare for that city pair and how do we go about it? Nothing showing up in my expense report and I asked my auditor, no joy. Thnx

 

Only thing I could find that addresses your situation:

8.A.3.c. Operational Deadheads ‡
In individual cases of operational necessity and with the approval of the System Chief Pilot, a Regional Chief Pilot or the Duty Officer, a pilot may be scheduled to deadhead on a Company aircraft, chartered jet carrier, Company corporate business jet aircraft or on a scheduled U.S. certificated air carrier operating under FAR Part 135. The SIG shall be advised of the reasons for this action within 5 days of occurrence.

There are also references to jumpseats when on airport or hotel standby in Section 12B.

Seems to me that if there's a ticket available and time allows, you should be going commercial. Suggest a call to Contract Enforcement to make sure things are handled properly.

 

I think that it is just a matter of scheduling putting the accepted fare on the pairing. It seems that in the past I have had this done so as I had that money available for deviating later in the month.

Check the settlement agreement 07-01 tied to section 8A3c of the contract.

 

Last christmas was on reserve in ANC. We were just sitting around so the built us a pairing down to MEM to sit hotel stby. Since it was just before christmas all the flights were full out of ANC. They built our pairing to DH on company A/C. I looked into it and if the pairing was built with the company DH there is not a bank associated with it. If the pairing was built with a DH then was changed to company DH then you should get a bank. Sounds like you were on an X pairing so probably originally built with company DH.

 

The only time you get a DH bank for a situation like this is/was a DH in/out of Almaty. There is a specific reference in a grievance settlement or LOA in one of the contract links.

If your pairing never had a bank and gets revised with an operational DH because they have no other options, you get no bank and like it, unfortunately. If you dispute the circumstances of the decision to use the j/s vice a pax DH, you could get contract enforcement involved. If the j/s use is legit, you're SOL.

 

It as 9-11 ... I was the RFO on a HKG-ANC flight. Very long story short, we ended up diverting to NRT.

3 days later ... I was reasonably certain that Scheduling had "lost" me (with crews and airplanes out of position all over the world, I still think they had, I wasn't going to tell them as I was now getting paid at 200%). It turns out those always efficient NRT ramp agents had NOT lost me ... About 1500L I get a phone call, "F/O Mayday Mark, we have lost a First Officer, can you fly to HKG?" My now I was pretty tired of the NRT hotel, HKG was better. A NRT-HKG flight reasonably easy.

I showered, packed & checked out of the hotel. I met some random ANC Captain that they managed to find in the hotel in the lobby. When we arrived in HKG the ramp agent advised us that the airplane (and us) would be continuing to Subic Bay!

Fast forward several more days (at 200%), we finally arrive in ANC. I went into the Ramp Office to see what the plan was now? 24 hour layover ... FDX jumpseat back to Memphis? W*F?

I called CRS and asked about the j/s arrangement. They went down their checklist ... it has to be an Operational Emergency ... STOP! ... Wait a second, I could argue that by definition, an "Operational Emergency" is when it's the only option to move an airplane (interestingly, they agreed) and that accordingly, deadheading me home was NEVER an Operational Emergency!

Because the US Airspace had been closed for days, there were NO seats on ANY airline to the "Lower 48" for the next 72 hours (at 200%!). We were scheduled to deadhead home FIRST CLASS.

I got on the next jumpseat home ... and collected 200% to sit at home for 3 days! (and got them to add the d/h to our trip)