Contract Dispatching

[S5Dispatch]

Let your voice be heard against the notice of proposed ruling making allowing contract dispatching http://www.regulations.gov/#!home.
Starting at page 55 http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/rulemaking/recently_published/media/FAA-2008-0677.pdf

 

[brokedash]

What a crock of crap that proposal is. I wonder how much Jeppesen paid for it?

 

[NJdispatcher]

hello, my name peggy....how may help you ?

 

[slider]

Well that's just great... I can see it now. "Hi my name is Peggy I'm your dispatcher what is problem please."

 

[slider]

I just posted that and someone beat me to the punch!

 

[Pull To Guns]

The FAA just didn't think this up all by themselves, airline management did. They have all wanted to get rid of us for some time. They will probably get their way. This move toward consolidation and the advances in software automation point in only one direction. Bye-bye travel benefits too.

I would advise anyone considering the dispatch profession to think twice.

 

[propsarebest]

hello, my name peggy....how may help you ?

Hey, do you work for GTI??


I have a Q for you if you do.

 

[WalterSobchak]

Sadly, when it comes to this type of sweeping change, our collective voices are too few to prevent it ourselves. The pilots and their unions will have to back the dispatchers of their respective airlines in order to prevent such outsourcing. Unfortunately, there are entirely too many pilots that take their dispatchers for granted or view them as a nuisance.

 

[Kohflot]

The big, big problem here is the fact that it's delicately inserted in rule changes that the public wants to (and probably should) see. 671 pages and contract dispatching takes up 4 of them.

I was digging through comments from the original proposal a couple of years ago on regulations.gov, and I could only find one "pro-CD" - from Jeppessen. In their letter, they give examples of all sorts of other outsourced aviation professions.. yet not one of them exercise operational control.

 

[Kohflot]

Something else to ponder:

How does this change the negotiating process between airlines and their dispatchers?

 

[Ohh Porterhouse]

You wouldn't happen to have a link to the actual regulation do you? When I click that link, it takes you to regulation.gov home page. Thanks

 

[Kohflot]

You wouldn't happen to have a link to the actual regulation do you? When I click that link, it takes you to regulation.gov home page. Thanks

The second link on the OP works fine for me. Opens a PDF. Then start at page 55. The actual reg changes are further in the document. 121.14xx

 

[Ohh Porterhouse]

The second link on the OP works fine for me. Opens a PDF. Then start at page 55. The actual reg changes are further in the document. 121.14xx

Got it thanks.

 

[SKC]

This is like it is now for supplemental ops.. where the director of ops has the resonsibility and delegates it to his/ her flight followers, ( which most are now licensed dispatchers)..

Major difference being the D.O. for supp ops is typically in the same building as the dispatchers/flight followers. He can (if he wishes) build a working relationship with the dispatchers, and get to know them personally, which builds trust in those that he has delegated the ability to release the flights.

In the proposed situation, your "employed" dispatcher is in one location and is responsible for everything done in a completely different location, likely in another state. They don't know the person who is releasing their company's flights or if that contracted person is even 100% following all of their company's policies or is he thinking of one of the three other companies he dispatches for.

 

[aviator202]

The sky is falling !!!!!! The sky is falling!!!

NOT !

All dispatcher union contracts have scope clauses to protect against outsourcing.

Relax....so SkyWesties....you might want to consider representation.

Strong scope language = the antidote to outsourcing.