Originally Posted by
MagPBS
Point 1. There is no way that this system can kick out an entire airline schedule by the 18th. And for that matter you wouldn't want it to. Attached is a copy of the open time from the first run at PHX CA in February as case in point. It also goes to
Point 2. Unstacking/coverage is nothing new. It existed in paper bids just wasn't as transparent. Because the Navtech product is pilot centric vs global solution it tries to honor every pilots (regardless of seniority) request. This gets dealt with via the coverage section whereby junior people can't have weekend as much as they would like them. It has in the past been used to correct shortages in staffing but it's also used to deal with changes in marketing (like February) and vacations issues (think X-Mas) and quite frankly I have numerous examples of pilots being unstacked a trip they specifically requested, but complain because it has the word unstacked on it.
My gawd that's a crappy schedule