Here's something that would speed up schedules coming out and make life better...don't hold trips for IOE! Drop assigned trips for IOE when needed like other airlines. Isn't that how Mesa used to be? I didn't see that previous concession in the last TA that the union tried to shove down our throat, which should have been negotiated back.

Here's another thought, other airlines, to include airlines that are much bigger than Mesa, use the same software and publish schedules 24 hours later. This isn't a dig on MAGPBS, but the reasons cited for the length of time it takes can be remedied if someone really wanted to fix it. But therein lies the problem. It is status quo and the company is fine with it, the union is fine with it, and so it will remain like that forever.

Same with the asinine amount of time it takes the company to process SAP requests, and schedule changes on the 28th. The contract says they have 24 hours or the union has to be notified (but there are no ramifications). Every month It happens, and the union says ok cool. What's being done to fix it? Not a lot. Have any new schedulers been hired since we started growing? I've heard from a CP that schedule changes are all manual because 117 rules aren't taken into account with split trips. Why don't they let automatic drops and pickups happen for the non-split trips, using manual intervention for the split trips? That would alleviate the backlog for a lot of requests and free up the schedulers to focus on the split trips during the 28-3rd when the requests are piled up. My understanding is Kevin W is the one who is saying no to that. What is the union's position and what is the union doing to fix it?