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Jetlinker
From the XJT scheduling committee PBS report:
Additional seniority issues exist within the Flightline system. As the program approaches the junior lineholders, there are fewer trips to work with. At times, because of a vacation, training event, or other leave, it will be impossible to combine those trips and “pre-assigned credits” into a legal line, so that bidder will be forced into reserve. Conversely, a bidder with the same event at a different time during the month may be awarded a line, even though numerous senior bidders were forced to reserve. This creates the concept of “lucky lineholders/unlucky reserves”, which directly violates seniority.
Would somebody from the CRJ side like to confirm this?
This is a rare occurrence but it does happen. While it needs to be fixed, any system is going to have gotchas like this that don't show up until they are in use.