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If you worked 7 days in a row you could not exceed 60 hours on duty. If there were 6 duty periods in your example they would have to average under 10 hours each. Possible but probably not the norm.
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I didn't realize that WSC was a legally binding document - I thought that it just served to help explain the scheduling provisions of our contract. From what I can find, the 9 hour leash is NOT codified in the PWA, it's IMPLIED as a MINIMUM leash thanks to the 3 hour prior acknowledgment requirement. As an example - let's say I'm on long call, and I noticed that I missed a call from scheduling so I use my iCrewMax app to unofficially check my schedule. And let's say that I notice, unofficially, that they have assigned a trip that reports 24 hours from now. I now have 21 hours before I have to officially acknowledge the assignment, not 9. Correct?
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WSC was approved by both the company and DALPA as a explanation and supplement to the contract. You can bet that the arbitrator will see the document and the company will have to explain why their interpretation then is different then now. WSC states that you always have at least 9 hours between schedule checks or returning a company call. It can be more but never less.
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Here is what the company agreed to in WSC.
A long-call pilot has a 12-hour leash, which means that he may not be required to report for a rotation in less than 12 hours or start short call in less than 10 hours from fi rst attempted notifi cation. As long as a pilot is contactable via at least one of the numbers listed in DBMS (just enough to know the telephone has not been called), then he will not have to check his schedule during routine long-call days. As long as Scheduling has not called one of those numbers, his 12-hour leash is always pushing out in front of the current time. If a long-call pilot desires to be out of contact entirely for periods of time (sleeping without interruption, golfi ng without a cell phone, etc.), then he must check his schedule (or messages) at least every 9 hours. This ensures that he can acknowledge no later than 3 hours prior to any rotation, 1 hour prior to start of a short call or 6 hours after the start of a rest period that might have been assigned while he was out of contact.
A long-call pilot has a 12-hour leash, which means that he may not be required to report for a rotation in less than 12 hours or start short call in less than 10 hours from fi rst attempted notifi cation. As long as a pilot is contactable via at least one of the numbers listed in DBMS (just enough to know the telephone has not been called), then he will not have to check his schedule during routine long-call days. As long as Scheduling has not called one of those numbers, his 12-hour leash is always pushing out in front of the current time. If a long-call pilot desires to be out of contact entirely for periods of time (sleeping without interruption, golfi ng without a cell phone, etc.), then he must check his schedule (or messages) at least every 9 hours. This ensures that he can acknowledge no later than 3 hours prior to any rotation, 1 hour prior to start of a short call or 6 hours after the start of a rest period that might have been assigned while he was out of contact.
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Most of the examples given could have also been flown under the old FAR's. If the trips were international you could fly an unlimited amount of days. Domestically you could probably fly what he posted legally. Trips with 30 hour layovers tend to have a lot of credit so you could easily be under 30. Toss in trips with dh legs and I suspect you would see it possible more often under the old FAR then the new one.
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Well I just heard back from the DALPA Scheduling guy. Turns out in a "Normal Month" it would swap a carry out trip, but due to Feb. 2 being Super Bowl Sunday, and one of the true "Capped Holidays" (like Christmas, July 4, New Years, etc.), it will NOT swap or drop any carry out trip you have that goes over Feb. 2 on the early PCS runs, starting tomorrow.
He said it might do it come January 20th, after the Feb. bids are done, if they have adequate reserve coverage for Feb. 2. So, I'll have to wait until Jan. 20 to try to dump it. I wasn't aware Feb. 2 is Superbowl Sunday, I have no delusions that the Patsies will be in it, so I wasn't trying to get off for that.
Feb. 2 is also my Son's 21st birthday, I was planing us a trip to Vegas, get him some hookers and blow. I guess that'll have to wait...
He said it might do it come January 20th, after the Feb. bids are done, if they have adequate reserve coverage for Feb. 2. So, I'll have to wait until Jan. 20 to try to dump it. I wasn't aware Feb. 2 is Superbowl Sunday, I have no delusions that the Patsies will be in it, so I wasn't trying to get off for that.
Feb. 2 is also my Son's 21st birthday, I was planing us a trip to Vegas, get him some hookers and blow. I guess that'll have to wait...
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Under the old rules, a domestic pilot couldn't work more than 6 days in a row without a long layover in there somewhere because of the 24 off in 7 calendar days. With the new rules, it's possible to work as much 7 days without a long break because of the rolling 168. Just something people will need to take into account when bidding.
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Take a look at my example again - there are 30 consecutive hours off at the beginning. After the pilot had worked his 7 days, he had 137 hours without a 30 hour rest. But, that's ok because he DID have 30+ consecutive hours of rest in the previous 168. 168 - 137 = 31. In a 168 hour look back upon his release on day 7, he had 31 consecutive hours of rest - at the beginning. In other words, you can go 138 hours before needing a 30 break in duty.
I don't understand. The 30 consecutive hours is in a rolling 168 hour window. 30 hours>24 hours so how can you possibly work 7 days in a row? I agree that counting a 30 hour layover as rest totally blows, but that is not really a change. You may indeed be working 7 consecutive calendar days but that is no different than before in fact the rest has been bumped from 24 to 30.
If the 30 consecutive hours are in the beginning then you have the first day of the week off.
One thing all this confusion points out is that we, both Pilots and schedulers, have not been adequately prepared for this transition.
The company had "hoped" for a different interpretation of 117. Well first off that is just another example of "hope" not being a sound strategy......... for anything. And second, WTFFF was plan b?
The company and DALPA has stuff posted - well thats just great. How about some actual training were we get paid for doing work - you know the old fashioned way. We do work - we get paid.
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That's one of the things about the FAR 117 - it's parts of it are the same, just labeled and defined differently.
Instead of 1 day off in 7, now we get 30 hours off in 168 hours of duty. (which is 1 day, 6 hours off every 7 days).
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