Originally Posted by
Asturias56
""Consecutive late 777 rosters, max hours, min days off, min rest overnights…"
but that's still within the rules - no? It may be uncomfortable when the airline requests it's pound of flesh but that's what people signed up to.
As of last week the Company had, again, published a late bid-pack for the wide-body fleets. In addition to this the average days off in a number of ranks is not in compliance with the CSRs.
No one "signed up" for this. First off all, bid package release and roster publication dates are stipulated in the contract.
Regardless, Limits are not targets, and single Roster limits are not sustainable long term. Partly due to QOL issues and fatigue but also other Flight & Duty limitations. When you consistently fly 90+ hr rosters (as we did on the 777 during the 787 engine issues) you start bouncing off other rolling limits like 35/7 and 100/28, along with the day off averages fall below those required in the CSR's. as per ALPA's recent Comms I quoted.
So the "Big Boss" ignores the problems and lets Rostering/Crewing deal with it. They can't publish a Bid Package or Legal roster within the contractual time-frames because of a Crew shortage and everyone bouncing off their limits... this in turn results in AHR denials which is the last resort (contractually) as a short term solution to get a roster out. One or 2 rosters could be considered the company getting their "pound of flesh", but we're well into contractual breaches now.