You expounded on it perfectly. It depended on if they could get a pilot in position. No wonder there was a grievance settlement.

 

The best evidence of reroute pay improvement is bidding. Pre C19 senior pilots (top % that could) bid to avoid sits in ATL because you would be rerouted for no extra pay into a longer duty day with a shorter less desirable layover destination. Now pilots do everything they can to be potentially rerouted, including a complete 180 in bidding strategey because between EDP, SIT, and reroutes ATL sits are some of the most lucrative trips. You're welcome.

 

Speak for yourself myself and many others in my base do everything we can to avoid ATL. I come to work with an expectation to fly the trip as it was built that's why I bid it. I understand that things change and as a result so may the trip but I can speak of only one time that a current contract reroute was worth it and that was because it turned a 5 day into a 3 day. This attitude that everything is about making extra money is pervavsive in the industry but way worse at Delta. If you cant make it on the current rates one is doing it wrong but that's on them. This weekend was another reminder of just how awful it could be dealing with irops and reroutes but to each their own I suppose I should be overjoyed about the extra pay :/

 

I would be rerouted every single rotation if I could be. Who gives a $hit what city I sleep in. I'm here to get paid for my time. Not to eat at one Chili's vs another.

 

I'd give away provisions?... boy I don't know where you've been the last year or so but that appears to be happening pretty easily on it's own. As to your second point L4 pay isn't THAT complicated? The SRH disagrees with you, imagine having so much contract jargon that an entirely seperate document needs to be created to explain it to the masses and the icing on the cake is that its an agreed upon document by both the company and association. But wait it get's better its so clear as mud that it gets walked on by the company and we have MEC alerts that are underwhelming to say the least. Don't worry "I'm just happy to be here"

 

Yeah but that was true under the old reroute rules too. Back then if you got your chain yanked you almost never got extra pay for it. The same chain yanking exists today but at least you are guaranteed to always make at least something extra, and on occasion a whole lot extra. I'd argue that the company is now less trigger happy on reroutes than they were in the past. I remember times of getting rerouted because some computer said it would save a few minutes but you're swapping planes with the crew being rerouted to cover your legs then both legs go out late. I don't hear of that happening any more. When I do get rerouted many of my reroutes have resulted in the same or less flying, but again for more pay. Reroutes are one of the pay items that we have the least control over. Yeah you can bid some sits or whatever but that's no guarantee and if some senior guys take crappier trips fishing for RR pay then that lets better trips go to more junior pilots.

 

How about we reroute you into min rest layovers for multiple nights in a row. Be careful if you call fatigued though that doesn't constitue reroute pay.

 

fatigue calls don’t excuse the company from reroute pay.

their take on that tells you all you need to know about management.

 

I'm well aware of mgmt but apparently saying we can upgrade an app to operate similary to AA's for scheduling purposes makes me a mgmt shill willing to give up our contract.

 

MiCrew is bad news; assuming that is what you’re talking about.

Your complaints about reroutes would be tenfold if we didn’t have the notification protections we have in our contract. Of course, pilots have to stand up for their damn selves.