Oberon's half baked plan to improve the green slip process...

The fact that the only method of communication for green slips is phone and they have to give you ten minutes to respond and you don't even get the chance to say "no" is antiquated. At the very least we should get the option of text message notifications. They could send a text with the trip and you could reply "accept", "decline", or nothing and they would move on in ten minutes. This would be much more efficient.

In the case of less than two hour trips they could send a mass text to everyone who has a GS in and is legal. The first to reply gets the trip. Admittedly, this could be problematic in a few ways; 1) calls now go out in seniority order for short notice GS but they wouldn't with text messages, 2) this would only work if text message notifications were required and I'm sure there are a lot of "get off my lawn" types who don't understand new-fangled technology, 3) if they put a 45 minute report time on it but you couldn't get there for two hours you would need to negotiate this with scheduling which would require a phone call or at least a text message conversation. I guess they could just substitute text messages with phone calls and use the same process they do now...like I said "half baked idea".

That said, text messages are old technology. A real win-win solution is a comprehensive app that allows notifications for green slips and open time as well as some form of communication with scheduling. I'm not sure exactly what it would look like but a system where pilots could see open trips easily and passively would benefit the company and the pilots.