DDO: Delayed Day Off is a day off infringed by up to and including 90
minutes. Latest off duty time would be 0130 local time. There shall be a
maximum of 5 DDO’s in a leave year. On these 5 occasions a day off in lieu
will not be awarded unless the DDO becomes an IDO
I am so thankful I don't work for a LoCo if that's the standard of scheduling agreement you are negotiating for. Appears to be a "bend over and take it like a man" scenario. How can you even accept the notion of being able to be rostered up to 23:59 before a day off? Are you all really that naive? Even CAP371 states that a day off shall include
two local nights.
Periods available for leisure and relaxation free from all duties. A single day off shall include two local nights. Consecutive days off shall include a further local night for each additional consecutive day off. A rest period may be included as part of a day off.
A local night cannot start later than 23:59 and to accept in any way that a day off that is infringed by working, for whatever or ANY reason and then to give it up should not be acceptable. If you guys agree to that you are the instigators of your own downfall. CAP371 defines a local night as:
A period of 8 hours falling between 2200 hours and 0800 hours local time.
I'd hazard a guess that whoever is involved in the negotiations for you guys will make sure that you are regularly rostered to work as close to 23:59 before a day off and as early as possible to 06:00 after a day off.
At least if you are going to negotiate a proper scheduling agreement make sure you get benefits that are slightly better than the absolute minimums as laid down by CAP371. Make it punitive for the company to repeatedly roster to maximums because they haven't employed enough flight crew. You should have buffers that protect you from the limits of CP371 such as no duties to be rostered to finish later than 21:00 before a day off and 09:00 after a day off. Force them to have to roster you earlies before days off and lates after days off. Anything less than that and you will appear to the rest of us as little more than muppets who love having no life. 5254 is a great boon to the company because they get 5+ days of productivity out of you on multi-sector days before they have to release you for a recovery period. With the agreement so far, they can take away up to 5 of your days off each period and there's nothing you muppets will be able to do about it. Sad!
