Originally Posted by
xjtguy
And the standard point would be used;
Line bidding sucked the way ASA used to do it. So prefbiddig is better than what was used before.
However, just like many XJT pilots don't know about flightline, an vast majority of ASA pilots DON'T know about the line bid work rules on the ERJ side.
It isn't too different from what we had before except your trip trading rules are much more liberal. Close enough? Oh yeah, you have add pay for picking up during vacation where you've conflicted out a couple of other trips and bad day, worse day. We know very well about conflict bidding. It's how we are able to extend vacations with Flightline as well. SmartPref will not allow this sort of conflict if you are constrained.
Constraints in a tough month could get into the upper echelons very easily with SmartPref system. The hype is work rules can change this. Problem is that if you write rules for this and restrict it, there is no resolution for this if a large stack occurs except to let it go higher. (Basically waive rules you've fought for) There is NO safety valve except higher global constraints. Just because you can see it doesn't make it suck any less.