"Silver Fox, most don’t realise this, CC or MSS is nothing more than being unhelpful or not putting the train back on the tracks when it falls off"
"All contract complicance really means is......NO FAVOURS"
All sounds simple..... however a few examples...
1. Report time is 70 mins before push. Are you going to arrive smack on time and read every word in the docs before deciding the fuel? Not prepared to do that...are you going to think ill of someone that does that?
2. Big tech delay out of HKG... As a crew you decide your departure time with no discretion.... the time arrives and L2 is still open. Do you call IOC and say "game over" or do you start reworking the figures... quick taxi here, CI250 there.... As an FO or SO do you say to the Capt... "No... we are at the agreed time and I don't care what shortcuts you think you may get..."
3. Big delay out of LAX. 15 hour sector and it's tight to get back to HK without discretion following a slow baggage load. Crew Control say launch and then look at your crew duty and declare HK or TPE. You get airborne and IOC acars and say no crews are available to position to TPE; with 30 mins discretion you can make HK... the Capt says lets do the 30 mins and he can be in bed with his loved one by 8am and home by 10am
The girls all have flights to MNL; you're the SO or FO... what do you do....?
4. The hotel calls you for the 883 when you are on 881 (about 2 hours early) you were asleep and you don't get back to sleep. It's a 15 hour flight; Do you claim disturbed rest and call CC and tell them to get a fresh FO...?
By all means; don't answer your phone on G-days....that requires you to do nothing... no head above the parapet. However, the examples above have all happened to me and require an action.... your neck is very much on the block.
For those of you banging the drum for AOA backed CC. Read thru the scenarios above and how difficult does it become if your actions (inactions) will cause you to be blackballed by your union....???