Originally Posted by
PUCCI GALORE
I feel particularly sorry for their Flight Attendants who are on cancelled flights and who are not going to be paid. As they did not work, through no fault of their own, they will not be paid. I gather that they are only paid for flying hours I must remind some of the crew in full moan drone that compared with them we at BA don't know that we are born.
Are you sure about that? Most US airlines (AFAIK) have a concept called "Bid Scheduled Trip Guarantee" or BSTG. What this basically means that if the trip you bid and got scheduled on is cancelled for any reason for no fault of yours, you are guaranteed payment for the scheduled length of that trip. And a trip is defined as the entire pattern for that crew, which may involve several flights over several days.
Or did this change in recent years? It certainly was the case in NWA at least until 2004.