Originally Posted by
Planetrain
I feel it was a real mistake not even trying VBs, on a trial basis. The software was there, the MCO commuters bid, it was all set. We could have pulled it down after a few months data. Now it will never happen.
Your open questions won’t be answered. There was a chance VBs could have been good, they could have been bad. Because of the persistent pessimism by many pilots, the fear of them bad will preclude even trying them out to see if it was good.
I agree. Pilots are always eternal "glass is half empty" pessimists. The opposition to VBs is like the pre-PBS knee-jerk opposition to PBS in any form. Now that we have it, there would be massive complaints if we got rid of it.
The real issue with pulling down with VBs is that the MEC...once again pandering to the "let's make everything a toxic battle with the company" crowd...looked like utter buffoons. For starters we actually had negotiated the concept of VBs with the company. Then we let the company get to the point of actually publishing a VB bid package in MCO...
then we pulled out of the agreement? But hey, we looked "tough" didn't we?
Maybe VBs would have been a bad thing by universal consensus. Maybe we all would have ended up saying "what was all the fuss and angst about?" (my opinion, but I could be wrong). We should have either never entertained the idea in the first place, or let it run for a few months.