You must be like your MEC, not living in the reality of the situation. Why? Because that is what our MEC decided to compromise on to move this merger forward. Despite the line pilots preferring our line bidding, they moved their position to smartpref. Now its up to your MEC to compromise. Or the company will start placing dual class RJs somewhere other than ASA. Anyway, this is all about moving goal posts. Smartpref is being implemented, its bugs are being worked out, its being reprogrammed for our work rules, its being tested for improvements, and its working like its supposed to be to the satisfaction of most. So you have to change your argument which was that it had no customers, its unproven, no work rules, everyone will hate it, etc. Also, its been shown that flight line in its current incarnation would be a decrease in QOL to the XJT side. And that's with vacation low, which has already been conceded. Smartpref doesn't require vacation low so no negotiating capital will be required to keep it in flight line, which like I said, would be a decrease in QOL anyway. Make sense yet?


The company said yes in the summer but your MEC turned dual tracks down back then. Plus, there are no problems with smartpref. The bugs that it does have are being worked out but most everyone that has used it has been happy with it. By the way, flight line didn't have the ability to award lines with CDOs. Our contract doesn't allow building of any lines with it so the CDO reprogram has been put on hold for now. But it was in the works, just not a priority at this time.

This is false. They will take smartpref or some watered down version of flight line without vacation low. But they prefer that smartpref comes up with a viable solution the first time without subjective human interaction, manipulation of thresholds, unstacking, sort bias, coin tosses, etc.