Originally Posted by Scoop

Buzz,

The seniority on reserve issue is being blown way out of proportion on this site - probably because many of the posters are very junior and think they might get hosed - fair enough, but I think many are premature in their judgment.

We both have said give it a chance - if it is unfair lets fix it, but guys want to call it a failure now and point to the small but vocal group on this forum as proof that it is unfair. Well lets look at a couple of things:

1. I looked at the RAW scores of a few junior categories and am not seeing the "unfairness" that I thought would be overwhelming.

11Feb2012 ATL 88B RAWs:

34
71
48
18
38
105

Well obviously the junior guy got hosed at 105 - wrong the 105 RAW is the most senior pilot on the list for today. My only guess would be he wanted to get into group 2 and have the 2nd half of the month off - who knows. Also the raw of 18 is the most junior guy for today.

This is the exact opposite of what we were told was going to happen.

2. I looked at the DALPA forum for the expected posting about the junior guys are getting hosed on reserve. Could not find it because most guys there, perhaps due to a more even distribution throughout the seniority list, had nothing but praise for the new system with kudos to the SOT.

So I will say again - lets give it a few months and see how it actually works before we deem it a failure. If after a few months it can be confirmed to unfairly burden the junior guys then absolutely we should fix it. But lets make sure its broke before we fix it.

Scoop