Schedule Changes
 

I know the company is in a jam when it comes to staffing. However, the schedule changes in the last week are exasperating their challenges. Even if I am getting double time, I pick a trip up with the thought of how it is going to fit into my personal life. I assume the trip that I pick up is going to resemble some remote facsimile to what I committed to both in terms of total hours of flying, sleep schedule, arrival time at my home base, etc.

if you pick up in the current circumstance, you may as well as be a reserve. Your trip will not resemble in any fashion what you commit to. AM will turn PM and vice versa, you will likely fly 50% more (screwing up future flying), you will almost assuredly return to your home base many hours past your your scheduled time and you will likely get your sleep pattern screwed up (regardless of what it is). Oh - and there is even a reasonable chance you will get JA’d.

We can blame Covid, Biden for his lack of foresight, the company for not hiring sooner, or the tooth fairy, as far as I am concerned. These schedule changes on picked up flying need to stop and fast or we won’t have anyone picking up and we will be canceling hundreds more flights than we already are.

While all legal, bad behavior has consequences. I think the consequences are going to even more cancelled flights, less guys flying, and a need to hire even more pilots than should be required and unfortunately less income for the pilot that won’t pick up any more.

Call Scheduling, press 1, then 2, and say "Hello, this is <state your name and employee number>. Please mark me as fatigued. Thank you. We'll talk again soon." Problem solved. And guess what? You don't even have to follow their recovery plan if you're not up for it either.

The company brags on having the industry-leading fatigue call policy. Remember, being tired/fatigued will NEVER be an acceptable excuse should you ever find yourself in the jam. They will point to the "industry-leading" fatigue policy and you'll be SOL.

Even if you fly your line awarded trip you are on reserve.

Bait n switch on open time trips is not new or unique to the current environment.

Just had a full first day of a four day cancel for tomorrow. Check your boards, LOL.

You use all of your seniority to bid on a trip, a line, etc... and with the click of a button they can take that seniority away from you and assign whatever they like.

It's a real problem... for us. They don't see it that way. As with most things around here it's "well you got paid premium for it didn't you?"

Money can't fix broken promises.

It’s 2021, and seniority today is systemically racist and unfair. /sarcasm

I don’t commute or really bid overnights in specific places. I want to make $ at work so don’t care if they screw with me. Should be a box to check though in case you’re the opposite and want to be left alone….”opt out of reroutes or something”

I definitely agree with that.

Amen. Maximum dollars while at work. That’s why I go to work. I seriously hope there will be an option to sign up for extra flying, reroutes, JA etc. in contract 2025.