The SAP is not broken. Trade approvals average 4.5 hours because 800+ pilots are submitting 30+ requests each in a 24 hour time period done through a low tech, outdated software product. We need several smaller improvements to the SAP that can collectively reduce approval times. Removing the rest buffer was one small improvement the company did. I can think of several others that would reduce times. Removing the medical and grace month dequal training issues would help too. If there was really a good reason why the company shouldn't let someone SAP, they could just lock all their trips as they do with training events. Letting captains SAP during the current time frame, and FOs 24 hours later would reduce wait times. We should channel our energy towards pushing for realistic improvements, not useless complaining. Your dreaming if you think we could ever get trades to approve instantly or dump flica for another product. It is possible to get average approval times down to one to two hours average though.