Once again, the piots' job is to work the least for the most money, making his time as valuable as possible.
The company's job is to make pilots work as much as possible for the least money, making the pilots' time as cheap as possible.
When workers are needed on G days, the company will always try to use the cheapest pilots first, and if that means extending a pattern of a pilot that will not trigger G day payout or overtime (very often because the pilot consents to waiving the 1 in 7 rule
), then of course he will be extended because our COS/RP allow it (and he consented to it, or further enabled it by answering the phone/checking messages/checking crew direct)...all because someone sometime traded something (or nothing) to let the company slip that wording into the COS/RP.
Ask around to find out how many other companies have to still pay pilots who have rostered trips taken away from them "for training" (or any reason) or who get paid 6 or 8 hours of credit for duty-free days spent in hotels, or get 100% bonus credit for each day they get home late at the end of a pattern that delays them into G (or "O") days, or get 4 (or 8) hours of credit for sitting on reserve for 8 hours (including the first 30 of the year, of course), or who get to see the master roster properly enough to ensure nobody junior to them received any of their requested trips or lines, and if so, they can drop the trip or line they got instead, force the swap, and either way they still get paid, the junior guy still gets paid, and the reserve guy then has to get paid to do the dropped trip....ETC. Guess what? Those companies don't get to spend all month creating roster changes and claiming disruptions and breaking rules, because there are expensive consequences to doing so.
The company sure knows about all these other contracts...and we have let them slip in vague wording over and over to assure we cannot get such clauses to work for us, even if we could put such clauses in there, due to the 100% availability of loopholes that are always included or attached elsewhere.
There had better not be a single instance of "in usual circumstances" or "normally" or "from time to time" or "except during a roster disruption" or any carte blanche exceptions in the RP we expect to vote upon soon....If there is, all the words before or after them mean nothing, as has been proven over and over again.
Hopefully the hundreds of 777 pilots about to join the second class freighter rostering world will be extra vigilant during the reading of the RP before they vote, as will the half of Airbus pilots who will soon enough end up on the 777 or 747 fleet, as we have all been told 1000 times that freighters rostering is the epicenter of "grey area" rule bending/intent ignoring.