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Old 4th Jul 2011, 09:56
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Iron Skillet
 
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Yeah, somebody got sick in Europe, hence the all-encompassing roster disruption, and thus all the "should's" and "normally's" and "exceptionally's" and "from time to time" options kick in...because we let them include such options with no negative incentives or consequences for them.

As long as there is any wiggle room or exception possible, none of the RPs or FTLs mean anything. I hope the pilot body has woken up to the meaninglessness of agreements that are meaningless, and will not accept such flimsy clauses ever again: Not the variations to the FTLs (the FTLs themselves are much improved, hence all the requested variations - if you have not read the AOA letters about this yet, you must), and certainly not in the next RPs....

It is time the pilots draw their own lines in the sand about what are show stoppers when it comes to meaningless clauses that are so easily re-interpreted, misinterpreted or simply ignored without consequences. That might might a month or two of trying to operate with expired RPs, but that will cause a lot more problems for the company than for the pilots, if the pilots can smarten up and just suck it up for a month or two until they come back in need....
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