- Inlight of current "staff shortages" Pre-ops and vswap to be available 24/7 and any swaps actioned within a set time period - contractual not a perk (as posted by Scoobydoo).
Sorry Scooby, but I find that part of your 'desires' completely unrealistic. Why should the company allow us to write our own rosters? What other company (airline or not) allows that? At the moment the queues for the Crew Service Centre can be quite long showing that they are never off the phone! If crew need help for a genuine reason then that is what the CSC is for. By keeping it open 24/7 and giving a time limit on swaps, then its just going to be congested with crew who cant be arsed to do a Miami on a sunday morning!
I see it as a major perk. For my first decade at VA we had nothing like pre-ops or the CSC (depts that cost the airline money and that were put in place to reduce crew absence). So if we offer our crew a good pay deal then surely it should remain as a perk?