the point that i am making is quite clear. I have been hearing the same clap trap about open time for the 20 years that we have had it. before that it was the best rosters went to the people that bribed the schedulers.
It may be that it actually goes on..true
But without proof there is NOTHING that you can do. If you make allegations against another employee from ANY department you have to have proof otherwise you are screwing yourself.
There is NOTHING that can be done that i can think of, other than asking for an explanation from the OT officer.
If you are pay protected and not trading and you have 50 hours pay protection and the trip gets awarded to someone who is trading then its a breach of the EBA and trading is second.
If it goes to someone on annual leave and its the last paris trip ( and this happened) and you call the FAAA the person will be removed from the pattern, it will be awarded to the PP flight attendant and someone in OPS has a lot of explaining to do.
There are some things that we can do as flight attendants and some things that we cant, just as its your word against a police officer if caught speeding or something else there are appeals processes. some of which you have a degree of success with and some you get screwed.
There has never been a perfect system of anything in my entire life in any field that i have ever been involved in or seen and ppl will complain of faults in the system or corruption and often there is just sadly nothing that can be done.
The FAAA has been monitoring this as have 000's of crew for decades and there has never been a perfect system no matter who is in management or in the Union.
If you are looking for perfection perhaps you need to join a buddhist temple