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Which is good- unless the trips are near identical in pay and pay wasn't the purpose of the request.
I've flat out been told before "sorry, I didn't look [at PCS requests]..." So it's one thing for SC which can be fixed but another for actual trip assignments.
To me if they're too busy they just blow it off. And you go from #1 with the lowest raw score requesting a specific trip on Christmas to #1 getting a trip that is 180 degrees from what you want and nobody was assigned any trips via a discernible contractual reason.
The schedulers simply go, #1 pilot gets first trip, #2 pilot gets second trip and so on. So being #1 means you get the earliest show.
It'd be nice if it was 100% computerized.
Now you can call ahead but I guess they've lost control over there because it's never a pleasant experience to call them anymore. "WE DON'T RUN THE RUO UNTIL 8AM AND WE'LL LOOK AT IT THEN!!!"
Very RJ like schedulers these days.
If you are awarded assignment pay because a trip was incorrectly assigned you get double pay for the trip flown. Its always worth a call to see if DALPA feels you have a case. The contract admin guys are very good and they have the same computer access as crew scheduling. They can view the exact trip assignment history and reconstruct exactly what happened.