Originally Posted by
sailingfun
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.
SF,
I've met you a couple of times... seem like a good guy... but I swear I shake my head at some of the things you say.
Don't know where you came up with any of the above. You may want to re-read my post.
As I heavily implied, of course I put qualifiers in... just impossible to account for every possible contingency.
As far as turning down gs's on the phone... either they know your SF or you've never been involved in a very short staffed situation (i.e., no one else with gs for that trip).
And I do treat every one with respect, like adults... but definitely have not always received the same back in kind... except in Japan!
Also, just to be clear, you favor a system that is completely skewed to the company? I.e., one answers the phone and sked may or may not allow you to pass on the gs out of the kindness of their hearts?... because that sure is not contractual... and it sure has not worked in my favor in the past.