Originally Posted by
kwri10s
Get rid of all the assorted makeup priority codes. If you get bumped off a trip for whatever reason. You get paid for that trip. If you want to make up a trip or fix your trip; then real-time trip trading.
If you see it, then you can have it. We waste a ton of time, hoping we get a trip. Either you get it instantly, or it was already gone when you hit submit. But you know that as soon as you hit the trip pickup.
Seniority should only affect monthly and system bidding. Not fixing your schedule after the fact. You don't like what you are getting in the monthly bid, then get more senior. Otherwise, play the open time lottery where everyone is equal.
Respectfully disagree. Paragraph 1 is good and matches other airline standards. If you are removed from a trip, no matter why, you get paid and stay or go home.
GET RID OF THE LOTTERY / EARLIER TIMESTAMP CRAP.
We are NOT equal and people cheat. Have pilots enter requests for OT trip pickups and the scheduling computer four times a day computes by seniority and gives the senior person the trip — not the person hawking OT, or the person with the fastest internet or a computer bot. Should you pick up a trip, you CAN NOT give it away (ends wolf pack crap) unless you have a good cause and the DO approves. The trip goes back to OT for the next crunching of OT. This is a fairer system since it goes by seniority and everyone is senior at some point.