I see this as ALPA getting a chance to train the next generation of schedulers. The company gets free training for a decimated department and we get a behind the scenes look and influence. I hope the ALPA schedulers get FPL and the company pays for it. Any other arrangement financially would be a huge give.

I laughed at the spin of how an ALPA guy now helping company screw us via his contract admin position could be a positive. The letter scares me. I have no faith in our new chairman. Another 2 years and done.

flip that number and it would be closer on how many reroutes are caught.

Agreed. Plus what we "lose" in someone not getting paid for a mistake, we get back in beter required staffing. If there is no staffing available, it then triggers the GS system etc.

Its fun to get paid for being a victim and even more fun when you didn't even know you were one. But its an undesireable way to run things from all points of view.

Yeah, except now you have someone in there to document and talk to the supervisors on duty versus never-ending phone tag. There is a much greater chance they catch the violation and who is doing it. And in the end, if they still refuse to change it, he's right there to ensure you get paid. How is this a bad thing?

I thought I’d be the first one to chime in with “Commuting is a choice!!”.....

It was my impression that the company had been opposed to this for quite a while. Any idea why the about face?

edit: saw someone mention the decimated staffing in CS/CR. That’s enough of a reason for me.

Just a guess but maybe pre-COVID they probably just accepted that it was cheaper to pay people for errors than to actually pay to fix the problem. I’d imagine that their number of errors is through the roof, driving costs to an unacceptable level where it actually benefits them to pay ALPA to sit and look over shoulders.

Hopefully that’s not the case. If so, we gave away a leverage point for essentially nothing.

We already have a good example of this, and have for years. It's called PBS. The company staffs the airline, publishes the bid packages and runs PBS.

THEN they pass the preliminary bid awards to ALPA for review and approval. Often times ALPA will reject the bid run and say "do over." Eventually all awards are approved and posted.

Using the logic of the naysayers, we should just let the company run whatever PBS solution they wish, tell the pilots to eat the sh!t sandwich, then do a post award review and award penalty pay to any pilot harmed through a bad award.

No thanks. I'd rather have a better life on a constant basis, than perhaps get an occasional bonus payment (weeks or months later) amidst scheduling shortcomings. If ALPA is part of a greater overall operation, that's not a bad thing either.