FDX - Cew Notification
 

'Drafting for multiple positions in open time.'

When did pushing this out in real time via the crew notification system become standard ops?

??...Desperate times in mid-Aug...??

What happens when it starts to get chilly?

Hahaha. Reminds me of Forrest Gump..

"stupid is as stupid does"

Ya don't build a Church for Easter and you don't build an airline for the Ides of August

Union Busting 101: Employee does something stupid, Company fires employee, other employees get scared (angry maybe, but still scared), productivity goes up, work gets done.






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I received the crew notification and I'm in the middle of my vacation footprint!

I guess they just blanketed the system with notifications. :eek:

Called twice, but no notification. The trips sounded really nice and I had a lot of questions but it turns out I am unavailable.

CEW Notification?
 

CEW? I had to reach way back into my Navy Flight Training cobwebs? How many times did I identify "Crestview VOR"?

CEW - CRESTVIEW VORTAC

:D

Got called yesterday. Drafting for "multiple trips on the AM launch." I don't even live in Memphis. Alas, I had to go coach youth football.

I'm very curious as to how this complies with the pilot working agreement. Seems to me that there needs to be a grievance filed regarding:

Section 25.O. Scheduling - Draft (DRF)

1. CRS shall offer a DRF assignment in reverse seniority order to pilots who are legal and available for that assignment.
2. The first pilot offered a DRF assignment shall be the next pilot senior to the last pilot who accepted a DRF assignment.

How, exactly, is this being complied with while using a blanket crew notification? Am I to assume that people are calling them back in reverse seniority order?


Pipe:mad::mad::mad:

Just another example of the contract not being followed...maybe. Something our lawyers should be looking at, and our Union should be addressing in a communication to us.

Two weeks ago I got a crew notification that they were drafting for a particular day. A week ago I got called for a draft trip. I dont live in MEM. Things must really be bad. I cant imagine the pressure that the schedulers must be under to get trips covered.

Whoever dropped the ball on our pilot staffing should be drop kicked out the door. I would imagine PC would be the whoever.