Keroseneuser
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- Aug 9, 2011
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With your logic, it's business as usual when a loaded gun is pointed at your head. No harm so long as the trigger isn't pulled and in that very very narrow and naive context, you're right.
Nah, looking at it from a realist point of view. The company is not fixing the maint issues like they used to, they are pushing them down the line, so we end up with the same write up over and over with many "resets"= delays. The company is short staffed in pilots, maint. gate and ramp= Delays. By their own admission in the injunction filing they say it....paraphrasing "injunction against not working overtime and not calling scheduling back" Well crap they have the vacation down to nothing and the days off pushed to the very minimum, what do they expect? They are in effect saying that their staffing is so bad that they cannot operate the schedule unless people pick up time on their off days.
The reserves are running 6 on 2 off or 6 on 3 off almost non stop with all nighters backed up by all day island trips then back to all night, yet they want an injunction against "fatigue calls" again, what do they expect? There are tons of valid data about body clock stress and fatigue and they run the guys in the exact opposite of what your body can do.
The weather is the weather, and the east coast gets hammered more than the west does=delays the list could go on and on.
DOH is bad for the west NIC is bad for the east, so much so that 90% of the east group I don't think cares if it ever gets worked out, most will be gone before the courtroom drama is done years down the road, and by then father time will have taken care of most of the issues due to retirements and <snicker> Growth <snicker>
Point is it does not matter if there is a "loaded gun" in form of an injunction or not pointed at them or not. the seniority issue is not getting worked out anytime soon, and only mgmt. can change the other issues listed. So why would I give one crappola about issues I cannot change? If its broke it gets written up as required by Regs. If I am too frigging tired to stay awake all night on a red eye due to going non stop for the previous 5 days I will call in instead of risk killing myself or my passengers. And with the reduced off time and vacation there is no way I am going to pick up time on off days and spend even more time away from my family.
So from a realist point of view, the injunction if it comes really does not matter one bit to me. I flew it legal before without intentionally slowing it down and will continue to do so. If they want to shoot me with the injunction gun, well so be it. I cannot control what mgmt. does to the schedule and staffing.