Worth highlighting for those that might not fully appreciate the gravity of accepting an extension.

 

You can say what you want. The company has made it clear that they expect us to extend in most situations. Extending is the path of least resistance. As long as these things are true, majority of our guys are going to extend.

 

As in "we will never order allot of 747-800's"

 

Couple of GS rotations went out today on the 73Bs.

 

Some would say it is worse than being inebriated. Everyone should read “Why We Sleep” by Matthew Walker.

“... studies in the US have shown that when you limit [medical] residents to no more than a sixteen-hour shift, with at least an eight-hour rest opportunity before the next shift, the number of serious medical errors made—defined as causing or having the potential to cause harm to a patient—drops by over 20 percent.”

Additionally, some of the worse accidents and incidents in history had lack of sleep as major contributing factors:

Exxon Valdez:
“Early reports suggested that the captain was inebriated while navigating the vessel. Later, however, it was revealed that the sober captain had turned over command to his third mate on deck, who had only slept six out of the previous forty-eight hours,”

Chernobyl:
“ ... was the fault of sleep-deprived operators working an exhaustive shift, occurring, without coincidence, at one a.m.” [Yes, there were other factors - as always.]

Luckily not in the book:
A certain airline:
One pilot became ill immediately after takeoff. This resulted in the other two pilots not getting a rest break as they should have and not sleeping during the 9 hour all night flight. The end result was landing a wide body aircraft on a taxiway early in the morning. Fortunately there were no other aircraft on the normally busy taxiway.

 

You are just shifting the pressure source from management to peer. I am not doing it regardless of the other 2 pilots financial situation.

 

You and your crazy talk!
/sarc

 

Another meltdown in progress. But we're properly staffed, right?

Had a brilliant one tonight- ARCOS called for a 2-day GS for an already delayed flight. Half way through the process, they cancelled the window. I notified ALPA scheduling (thanks, tunes!), and a CA is getting paid for that.

I looked it up, and they had rerouted another CA into it on the first leg of his trip. Knowing the CA and that he knows the contract, I figured he'd refuse it. He apparently did. 35 minutes later, I got another ARCOS call for the same flight on yet another 2 day rotation number.

Trying to go on the cheap, they had to pay 2 captains and delayed the flight an hour beyond the already delayed time.

 

They can’t cancel the window? They did that to me a month or two ago and then reran it later that day with the same trips. A GS went to someone senior to me (which may or may not have happened if they hadn’t stopped the window the first time).

 

They have to pay the senior person that accepted it for the window that was subsequently cancelled. Look up the callout number and send it to ALPA scheds. This is apparently happening a whole lot.