Originally Posted by
deltajuliet
Idea: If the pairings are already created for FA's earlier in the month, why couldn't we push back our bidding window? Instead of the 13th-17th, say, 8th-12th, and then get awards by around the 17th. Something like that.
Were stuck in status quo land. The original window was written when FA's were in negotiations in 08 also so that they'd move their bid window back to give more time for pairings to be constructed. That didn't happen.
Both sides (company and union) agreed to a new time frame in the TA that moved up the bidding/processing and shorted the window. WITHOUT starting a debate on that TA we can't just arbitrarily move the window without a TA or LOA. We do have the ability (and use it quite often) to publish results when done early. Historically for the last few years we publish on the 21st.