Originally Posted by
TallFlyer
I would agree with you that ALPA building trips is probably not going to move the needle a huge amount, unless the Crew Planning department is really as inept as certain comments on compass cards would make it seem. Having spent a fair amount of time in Jim S's office, he's smarter than a lot of people give him credit for.
What I am interested to see is how having a new VP of Planning and Efficency (or whatever his title is) affects us before ALPA gets their hands on the pairing generator.
One issue we can all agree upon, the number one factor that leads to inefficiencies is the system we use to split up trips for conflicts. This has nothing to do with the trips that are built by the pairing generator.
We don't have to adapt PBS in order to eliminate the process of splitting trips. Personally, I'd like to keep line bidding the way it is with the exception of split trips for conflicts.
I'd like to see the trip dropped off your schedule completely if it conflicts with training or vacation. The split trip problem gets solved and open time would look a lot better in SAP and all month long.