Originally Posted by
JetBlast77
You obviously didnt read what I said about the restricted group. Those few pilots at the bottom are the only ones affected by what you call globilization. This doesn't even necessarily cause a pilots request to not be honored. Look, I truly want the best system, and having seen and truly understood how both systems work, im telling you, smartpref blows flightline out of the water. If flightline was better I would be campaining for it all the way. To think about filling out 100 bid sheets when I could just bid live is simply ridiculous.
Just like those few pilots that were going to be affected by the unstack option, which was only going to be used as a last resort. Bottom line is this: if you allow globalization, you will eventually see it every month, and it will affect a greater percent of the pilot group each month. Find anything in our history that says otherwise. I'm glad you think that Smartpref blows Flightline out of the water, but, frankly, I really don't have any reason to trust you, so your opinion is worthless to me. It's like my daddy always said "Opinions are like rear ends, everybody's got one and some stink worse than others!" I love my daddy! But I digress. If you haven't bid with both under the same set of rules, you are merely providing an opinion (see above). The only way to accurately analyze these two products (or any other) is to bid with them side by side with the same set of rules and make an educated determination based on the results.
Very good point! Which is exactly what the XJT MEC did and the ASA MEC didn't do. To this day they have not run any real pairings through smartpref with any existing work rules.