January 28 - February 1 Picking up my passport

I finally made it back down to the passport appointment.  Dropped everything off and was good to go.  It's funny how curious people get about the airline industry, even the guy at the passport agency was curious about our job.

They told me it would take a day or two to prepare my passport.  I left and flew home to Orlando.

I was scheduled to work on February 1, so I was only going home for 2 days.  I called on the 31 to see if my passport was ready and they said it should be done first thing in the morning.  That was at 10:30am.  I called scheduling immediately and let them know the situation and asked to be put on reserve in the afternoon.

At 3pm, I was sitting at Starbucks in downtown Orlando when the schedule was released.  I was assigned a 4 day trip with a 6am report time and 2 international legs.  There was no way to make it back to Boston in time to try and get my passport early.  The office closed at 5pm and the next flight wouldn't get me there until 6:30.  I called Boston Inflight and spoke with a supervisor.  I called everyone I could to find out what could be done.  I couldn't believe it!  I gave scheduling plenty of notice about my passport and there were 17 people still available on the "grid" to work a 4 day trip.  The Boston Supervisor had the trip removed from my schedule with a UNA (Unavailable for Assignment).  Just like the other UNA's I've received, this one is a big deal.  The supervisor told me if I called in the morning and was available to work, they could add me back to the schedule for the day and maybe it would help me get the UNA removed.

I flew to Boston and was at the passport agency at 9am, as soon as they opened.  I called the Inflight Office and talked with a supervisor.  I had to call him back 3 times throughout the day and he finally informed me that I would not be added back to the schedule.  What?  I was good to work 4 days and it was 9:15am.  There was plenty of time for me to be assigned to a trip.

When I got back to Boston, another one of my crashpad mates said she'd called scheduling the same day and asked to be put on a late report (just like I did).  Scheduling was able to put her on airport standby at 1pm.  I swear they hate me over there.  So frustrating.