Originally Posted by
Scoop
FTB,
I think that you are saying a "snapshot" on any given day will not be representative of how the system is actually working. If so, I agree 100%.
This is exactly what I have been saying - lets build some data, analyze the data, and then, make some adjustments if required.
But I am still curious as to why the junior guy, on call on weekends so he is probably pretty junior, has the lowest RAW in both categories. Maybe some senior guys who commute to reserve will try to get to bucket two ASAP?? I don't know - maybe in a couple of months we will have better picture?
Scoop
Scoop, we will in a couple of months i guess, adjusted for ALVs and the like

. A one month snap shot is never good and isn't good now, which is why I'm basing my argument on the principle of the system. For example, February is a bad indication of where ATLM88B sits with reserves. This month I want to say we have 35 fewer reserves than January but only 3 pilots less in total in category than January. It really means we have 32 more pilots holding lines. That will change but it's a major reason why there is the perverbial 0 open time.
Looking at the list are you talking about the pilot with the 18 raw? I think I could find the answer but it'd end up putting my name at the bottom of their schedule and that'd blow my identity possibly.

One thing that can happen I guess is a pilot can be put on SC and not be used or used for a turn or something and someone senior to them on the list have LC and they get a trip or on SC they got a bigger trip.
So I guess to see how this system works it'd be interesting to see all of the pilots with actual credit excluding having been called out on SC. Given that SC will be seniority based soon seeing the numbers that way would be more indicative of things to come with this system.
We shall see. I am not opposed to buckets but I still vote no on a pure seniority based reserve system even though it will help me fly even less. Most everyone if not all of the people who have complained to me have said the same thing, you want a bucket system thats using RUOs that are between RAW and seniority based? Fine. 80 raw? Not in my category, that'd be a pure seniority system all month.