Originally Posted by
LivingTheDream
Too bad, so sad.
I specifically asked the then head of skeds, some 10 years ago, while in charm school, why all ws/gs/ia can't be a proffer... you are always going to get someone to take the trip for double pay... even on Xmas.
Then everyone would pick up the phone on the first ring... one call, then move on... everyone wins.
His response was: "you pilots want everything your way". This was in front of the entire charm school class.
I tried to explain that a ws/gs/ia is not reserve and the "everyone wins" part (including his schedulers). Also, if the company treated us like adults, we would act like adults, (instead of hiding like 10yo school boys), but he wanted no part of that.
Further, there is no way to put in a specific slip to cover all the changing contingencies that occur in one's life.
Therefore, I'll keep my blanket slips in for the month, thank you very much.
So your goal for putting in blanket white slips or at least not tailoring them to something close to what you would fly is to increase crew schedulers workload and mess up your fellow pilots who might have wanted the trip but can't make the report by the time they wade through the make work crowd?
I also put in blanket slips but I do try to tailor them to what I want. I have declined many GS's after answering the phone and not once has scheduling demanded I fly the flight. Usually I get a response like "thank you for answering I will move on." I find that if you treat them like adults they return the favor with perhaps two exceptions.
I once flew often with a real gem of a CA who called the flight attendants every 30 minutes and demanded they bring him something. As soon as they left the cockpit he would toss the item in the garbage. He thought it was fun to increase their workload.