Well, when did you change? At the beginning of the year you stated you were still a 75 captain. Or is this just cover for another one of your lies? You keep avoiding answering who I am. You stated that you knew, but that too was a lie. You even have stated that the FO's you fly with aren't doing what you want and you also stated that you are senior enough to hold double deadheads. So, tell me what WB captain position has a senior captain that can always hold double deadheads that was hired after 2015?

 

The company has SIG parameters that they must use when building pairings. The second you show up for a trip and find that your pairing looks nothing like you bid, those parameters go out the window. Same for the International Grid. Build the pairing to comply, then toss them the second you show up for the trip. Why do we bother? The SIG works their arses off making sure the pairings comply, but then just like that the company can negate that and work you til you drop. Then the GPE’s are supposed to kick in after showing for the trip. Just had a trip with multiple GPE’s (rest < 14hrs, exceeded grid duty day limits, exceeded grid block hour limits) yet the company was able to avoid paying any of those due to the loopholes added in the language. In this case the 32/120 reset is reduced to 30/120. I thought 32 was a reset. That’s what it says. No so fast. I learned that that reset can be reduced to 30 after show time. If all GPE’s touch a single 48hr period, then no soup for you! I finally had my 30:14 reset at the back end of the trip. What’s more convoluted, the substitution language or the International Grid/GPE language? Why do we bother writing all of these scheduling rules that we allow to be tossed the second we show up for work? If those parameters are needed during the pairing building phase to ensure a safe and fatigue reducing scheduled why shouldn’t they apply all of the time? Point is, why do we allow that language into the contract. Totally frustrated! Now back down to the galley for me.

 

Arent all the revision overrides made for operational reasons. So when things get changed after that covers the pay ramifications. I will agree that the revision overrides need to be increased in this next contract.