IOE Displacement
 

Can a captain be reassigned flying as an FO after being displaced from his original sequence, if multiple FO reserves are available to fly the sequence? Asking for a friend....

The contract says only if no FO reserves are available. I'll try to find the reference, standby.

Edit: section 12.G.a says: The assignment of Reserve Captains to First Officer flying will be done after all Reserve First Officers in domicile and all Ready Reserve First Officers in domicile are assigned to flights (as specified in Section 11.I.1.c.1-5) and are unable to complete the assignment.

The problem is: the captain is a line holder. Thus, scheduling claims that section 12 doesn't apply.

I didn't think line holders were permitted to be forced into the right seat. I'll look.

Obvious question but did they put it on his schedule by noon the day before?

Yes.
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I can't find anything in section 11 permitting line holders to be reassigned into the right seat. I would have your friend ask scheduling what part of the contract allows a line holding CA to be forced over there with reserves available. Also have him email [email protected] (that's contract compliance) and get their take. They are usually pretty quick about responding.

Oh yea, he's already in touch with ALPA. Union is taking the position of: where in the contract does it say you can do that, while scheduling is taking the position of: where in the contract does it say you CAN'T do that. Might be a fly-it-and-grieve-it situation.

Update: The CA was removed from the sequence. I'll leave details out for anonymity reasons.

Good. That's complete garbage. If you can post what convinced scheduling to remove him it could be helpful for folks if they ever try that again. If not I get it.

In short, ALPA went to bat for him, and got a positive result. The reps did a great job in a short amount of time. Not really any explanation from CS other than he was removed.

Win.



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Got to love this company....what can they think of next?

I love how they float these things to see what they can get away with. Fortunately the union seems to have nipped this one in the bud. I remember the multiple day junior mans running rampant last year - that was another test balloon that wasn't shot down nearly as quickly.

This is just one of many examples why it doesn’t matter what RSV LOA gets voted in. Until that she devil is removed as CS manager this will keep up. You think the schedulers come up with these ideas? Nope! Comes from the top down.

This is why I stress to FOs that they need to have a pretty good understanding of the contract. If they think they're getting screwed - they probably are. They need to look stuff up in the contract, and challenge CS if they think it's wrong. If they don't get it fixed, they need to call their reps. I think the biggest fear a lot of new FOs have is getting fired because they're on probation, but if the contract is being broken, it's being broken - it really doesn't matter that they're on probation. Challenge CS politely, then call the rep. They will fight for ALL pilots, regardless of status with the company.