Originally Posted by
Scoop
So are you saying a junior guy hitting bucket 2 with 32 flight hours on the 11th is not fair? If the senior guys sits on the couch for the rest of the month in bucket 1 so will the junior guy in bucket 2. The bucket system is self correcting in this regard.
OBTW - the system you are describing is exactly what we had at DAL - I should know, I was the plug in LAX back then. The bucket system seems to me to be a very compromise between spreading the work and honoring seniority.
Scoop
I agree with this as well.
With some tweaking to the SC situation the current bucket system is a good compromise.
The previous system (pre bucket) basically ignored seniority unless raw scores were equal. And the only time that usually happened was at the beginning of the month when everyone was at zero.
Political rant: distributing reserve flying equally between junior and senior seems to run contrary to our entirely seniority-based world. What is next to be changed?