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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
Not a union thing, it's a regulatory thing (FARs). The airline screwed up in personnel management - the should have seen it coming and gotten coverage for the required attendant position.
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^^This.^^
Yes, the flight attendant scheduler(s) have computer programs that mark these conflicts ahead of time but sometimes it comes down to minutes, sometimes just one or two. The scheduler probably gambled and assumed the stew would make it under the FAR limit but then she didn't and the gamble failed. Happens all the time. Cost-cutting, radical cost-cutting, is what causes this. They shave the meat so close to the bone trying to squeeze that last buck out of the operation that they shave it too far and get bone. (Only metaphor I could come up with on the fly.) Keep in mind too that if the stew goes past the regulation duty period she (he) can be punished. Pilots too. Airline flying is one of the few places where the feds love to enforce the rules and they rarely punish the carriers, they go after crews. Feel free to stick your neck out for that kind of punishment at your job.