Background to this latest shaft:
Recently a Qantas cabin crew
was reported as having won a large sum of cash-money in the courts based on having suffered a personal injury when down-route on a layover.
The airline was found to be liable because they gave her allowances instead of a hotel meal-voucher to pay for her dinner. Therefore they accepted that she might go down the road to 7-11 and buy herself some noodles instead of eating in the hotel reataurant.
Compis mentis - it was the airline's fault.
Now the EK Brain Trust who see and smell all things money with crystal vision have acted in advance to prevent similar here. They have told you what not to do and will not pay if you indulge and damage yourself. Case closed - so they think.
Want to know what the next shaft will be? Note the reference above to crew not having been issued a hotel MEAL VOUCHER.
after you have completed your mandated rest period...... you are to be used at the companies descretion. If..... the company tries unsuccessfully to locate you .........the company is quite within their rights to terminate you for cause
With the exception of being contactable, being downroute after the required rest period is like being on a day off. No requirement for anyone to do anything except show up at pick-up time. If it's a two-day or more layover, you don't even have to be sober the entire time provided the limits for the planned next duty are not exceeded. Sorry
411A but you're wrong again. Not surprising since you're taking wild guesses from miles away.
stand by for the FCI stating that you WILL have your company phone on and in your possession at all times while on a layover.
You're already supposed to be contactable, according to the FOM. The company phone gets them a Capt at short notice but may not help with an FO who's probably out tomcatting when the call comes in. Good luck to him... Anyway the FOM already states the phone is for contact when on a layover. They'll tell you that implies it should be on. Yes but you might be in a bad reception area...
It already says: "
No pot-holing"