Originally Posted by
name10135
Just an FYI for L-ASA guys here:
SmartPref is being run parallel to the EWR and CLE secondary bid schedule this week. (For February, Relief Line holders, & Reserves)
IIRC we have already run a solution for EWR on the January schedule, and most of those awards were manually placed by Crew Scheduling.
So, there is, and will be HARD data for your JNC / MEC to look at if they want to.
That's not hard data for anybody, except secondary bids. Where's the primary bid? The primary bid is what really matters, not the secondary. And we need to see it next to any other options before it is meaningful. Have you ever had that experience where you buy something, like a computer, at the store, and the salesman pushes a couple of buttons, resulting in some kind of amazing display of capability? Then you get home and all you can do is power it up and watch a blank screen. That is what Smart Pref currently is for us. Again, I am not for or against any system, but I want to see results, not a sales pitch. We know how Flightline works, since we have already gone through the painful process of researching it, implementing it, and debugging it. Nobody really knows how, or if, SmartPref will really perform for primary bidding. What do we say if we implement SmartPref, we find that it doesn't work the way we expected, and it actually ends up worse for everybody? Who is willing to take that chance?