Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
I've always wondered why captains don't get to do that. Ive heard plenty of stories where captains have handed the fo a piece of paper with their employee number and said please put me on your no fly list. I think thats awesome.
It's the PBS algorithm, which builds the captains lines first, then fills in the FO's. In the future, when computers get way more powerful, there may be enough processing power to build the lines at the same time, and give that option to captains.