Skywest pilot antics in IAH

jtrain609 said:
To compound on this, at many regionals, your days off are not really days off. The company can take away your awarded days off, make you continue to fly up to FAR limits, and then give those days back later in the month. Or not in some cases. It can get kind of brutal when staffing gets tight.
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I lost count of my rolled days off. ORD sure was a wreck wasnt it. It was near apocalyptic at one point.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
And if you're not, then you're sick. Because I know that if someone tried to take my scheduled days off away, I would be so pissed off that there would be no way that I could be fit for flight.
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But isn't that in your contract to be junior manned?
It's dishonest and deceitful. Sucks, yes, we'll so does the pay check. Two of the things you agreed to when you were hired on at Junior Manning Express Airlines.
 
etflies said:
Intercept crew members who thought they were going home, and notify them that they are not, in fact, done working.
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Here's the deal though, these crew schedulers are making barely above minimum wage and just doing what they are told. What do we expect them to do? Just roll over and get fired? Mgmt tells them what to do, and they do it. I never yell at them, in fact, I rarely talk to them. They never bother me unless theres an IROP going on and we have a reflow or cxl. I've heard of some pilots really treating them like crap which is uncalled for an unprofessional. Not saying I like stuff happen to me, just saying logically I know why they are doing it, and I don't hate them for doing their job.
 
jtrain609 said:
To compound on this, at many regionals, your days off are not really days off. The company can take away your awarded days off, make you continue to fly up to FAR limits, and then give those days back later in the month. Or not in some cases. It can get kind of brutal when staffing gets tight.
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They can't and don't do that at our airline. Unless of course a plane broke at the outstation on the last leg of your trip and you got stuck there into your day off, but thats not the companies fault. The plane just broke at the wrong time. If that happens you do get paid min guarantee/block(which ever is higher) for that day
 
ATN_Pilot said:
And if you're not, then you're sick. Because I know that if someone tried to take my scheduled days off away, I would be so pissed off that there would be no way that I could be fit for flight.
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Extra round trip maybe. Extension into a day off? It all depends on what was planned that day...and how much you're going to pay. (No, I won't do the 'compensation via equal time off' thing.)
 
Nark said:
But isn't that in your contract to be junior manned?
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In mine? No, I can decline a junior assignment for an "important personal circumstance" or an extension for an "extraordinary personal hardship." Needless to say, I have a lot of circumstances and hardships going on on a pretty much constant basis. ;)

At Pinnacle, yes, it was in the contract. But we were treated so horrendously there that I was truly fatigued or so pissed off as to be unsafe if they took away my minuscule time off that it wasn't dishonest. When you're flying three two-days back-to-back, and then they decide that they're junior manning you after giving you only one day off in between, do you think you'll not be fatigued? I know I was.
 
I didn't read page 1 through 11. But has anyone asked why the hell is this pilot videotaping some other pilot?
 
mrivc211 said:
Here's the deal though, these crew schedulers are making barely above minimum wage and just doing what they are told. What do we expect them to do? Just roll over and get fired? Mgmt tells them what to do, and they do it. I never yell at them, in fact, I rarely talk to them. They never bother me unless theres an IROP going on and we have a reflow or cxl. I've heard of some pilots really treating them like crap which is uncalled for an unprofessional. Not saying I like stuff happen to me, just saying logically I know why they are doing it, and I don't hate them for doing their job.
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Oh I know. I don't have an issue when they're courteous and following the contract/rules. They have a job to do and more importantly they are human too. Nine out of ten that I've dealt with are respectful and do their job well with the tools they are given, but when that one has an attitude or decides not to follow the rules then I have an issue with them. Acting unprofessional or rude no matter how frustrated I get or they get at any point is uncalled for, IMO on either side of the conversation.
 
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