Originally Posted by HardLemonade

Those bastards in scheduling hand out MAs like a creepy guy hands out candy at a Chuck E Cheese. They gave me an MA the other day for not accepting a duty day extension. Straight to the Chief's office I go..and he laughed out loud as he removed the MA from my HI10.

Another tid bit I learned about scheduling: if you are on days off and have a trip on day 1, and you don't confirm said trip by 2100 they will just straight up remove the trip from your schedule and fling you back on RAP1 like a cheap piece of meat. Even if your sign in time is in the afternoon.

I called and went around in multiple circles with a scheduler over this. Apparently it's a new policy. Too many pilots weren't confirming their trips, forcing scheduling to call them at midnight. Ok...but that doesn't change anything if your sign in time is in the afternoon, right? Apparently that doesn't matter to scheduling. They just made this a blanket policy for anyone and everyone who doesn't confirm by 2100. The bastards.

Just a heads up. Oh, and good luck to all my brothers in South Florida. Keep us posted and let us know if there is anything we can do. I volunteered for those ferry/relief flights...stay strong.

Originally Posted by Pedro4President

The 2100 time has been around a couple years. New CAs find out pretty quick. There are many times people will proffer for a trip and not confirm a trip. They do this hoping to tweak the reserve list a bit so they won't get called out.

I'm not even sure if it's legal. Someone proffers for a late start and gets it. Goes out and forgets to confirm the trip now he is stuck back on a RAP 1 without sufficient rest. Now I know the 2100 isn't contractual because they can't change our schedule after 1700.

Originally Posted by HardLemonade

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's not contractual either even though they claim it is. But it is 100% stupid which is consistent with all random Crew Scheduling decisions. That one trip of mine they removed...it sat in open time despite me asking for it back. Then the next day I was so far up the RSV list I never got touched...meanwhile I watched as they burned 2 reserve guys to cover my original trip. The guy on standby and another on RAP who had to come in and finish the other guy's standby shift.

Meanwhile I'm watching the whole thing from home...laughing with a bucket of popcorn and fried chicken.