Originally Posted by CAL 73

ALPA forgot to include Example 3

" · All requests for the following bid month that are selected to go into the real time runs and saved between the 20th@1200LBT and the 24th@1500LBT will get a time stamp of the 24th@1500LBT. "

Example 3;

- 400 EWR CAs enter their requests between 20th@1200LBT and 24th@1500LBT, therefore, all 400 of them get a time stamp of 24th/15:00:00.

Then, all 400 Captains are forced into a timestamp tie, and according to "All real time runs will process in time/date stamp order and if any requests have the same time stamp then seniority will be the tiebreaker." seniority is used to award all real time trips.

THIS IS NOT REAL TIME. IT IS A SENIORITY AWARDING SYSTEM. I am all for seniority in bid awards/pay/vac but this just destroyed any chance the bottom 85% of pilots in each base had for grabbing a good trip. All good trips will be picked up by the top 10-15% and leftover 3-4 day trips will be thrown into Real Time. This is a mistake that will have negative result on far more pilots than it benefits.

Call it ALL SENIORITY trading, not Real Time, which it is not. Being honest makes more sense than the vague explanation and omitting an example like mine.