First, I agree that it is ridiculous how the FO schedules at JFK always come out last by a long shot. They have to be after the others, but all of the FO schedules should come as a simultaneous release.
In this case, it is the direct result of crew planning not doing their job correctly. One Captain's vacation bid was not correctly in the system, so the entire JFK Captains schedule did not get done on time since it had to be run a second time. Then, as you probably know, the training center had to figure out how to get the IOE on Kevin, Jon's, etc. schedule...that then caused the FO schedule to be delayed so all the FO's had at least 24 hours to redo their bid.
I am concerned that if it takes this long to get the bids done with our "business partner" now, what is going to happen as we continue to grow?
