SLC / SEA base visit questions

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11-06-2022, 09:42 AM

Johnnychimpo

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SLC / SEA base visit questions

It seems that when left to the base visit moderators, they will only ask softball questions, so I figured we could compile some questions for people that are attending SLC/SEA bass visits to ask.

To date, ALPA has recovered almost 42,000 hours of pilot pay due to scheduling issues. What is the company proactively doing to rectify this problem, so that pilots don’t have to find, submit, and then track pay issues due to errors of other divisions? At the DTW base visit you said a lot of the errors were due to so many schedulers being new, but also provided a solution of “hiring more people,” which seems to add to the problem of having more new/inexperienced schedulers instead of being a solution to the issue of solving pilot pay.

At the DTW visit, Patrick Burns was quite dismissive in regards to our overwhelming strike authorization vote, and it seems the company treats it strictly as a tactic to gain leverage. Is there any chance this vote was actually an indicator of pilot sentiment towards the company and their out-of-touch commutation pieces, and not just a leverage tactic?

11-06-2022, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Johnnychimpo

To date, ALPA has recovered almost 42,000 hours of pilot pay due to scheduling issues. What is the company proactively doing to rectify this problem, so that pilots don’t have to find, submit, and then track pay issues due to errors of other divisions? At the DTW base visit you said a lot of the errors were due to so many schedulers being new, but also provided a solution of “hiring more people,” which seems to add to the problem of having more new/inexperienced schedulers instead of being a solution to the issue of solving pilot pay.

Asked and answered. They are doing nothing.

Either file a lawsuit, or shut up and color. DALPA hasn’t gone beyond assisting individual recitations of pay errors and seems content to accept the status quo in perpetuity.