Originally Posted by
ClickClickBoom
SKYW, has been coasting along on their laurels for quite awhile. 117 has nothing to do with our horrid schedules, the problem lies in one office only, SS Reichsfuhrer Anita S. She has been outdated/and or outclassed since her Tandy computer was replaced with a 086 grade computer. Skywest has refused to adapt their old business model to the current times. Creating schedules from thousands of city pairs constrained by federal regulatory limits is a large problem, but if NASA can slingshot a space ship around the moon using nothing but sliderules, it is possible to schedule crews to fly airplanes. The reality is the schedules are published by the parent carrier, airframe numbers are known, crew numbers are predictable, the variables left are MX, weather and sickness calls. There are computers that can play chess at the grand master level, but SKYW can't build a semi efficient schedule? SKYW will either adapt or perish, and I don't see much adapting going on....
I think 117 had a big impact, but also concur that Anita is leaving a LOT of efficiency on the table due to pure laziness/narrow-mindedness/incompetence in CS. They DESPERATELY need to upgrade to windows 98 and pentium processors
One of our small bases had a incident recently where apparently a new-hire CS person was assigned the task of building pairings for the next month. She was apparently a bit obtuse and not supervised well, and since it required more work and mental horsepower to figure out overnights, she built an entire month using only locals with no or almost no multiday trips (possible since this was a satellite base, not a hub). Nobody noticed until it was too late...lot of peed-off commuters blew half their paychecks on hotels that month.