Originally Posted by
PurpleToolBox
Here, FDX Alpa comes clean about the SLG and how the use of PBS (he never says PBS but says SLG) makes the system more efficient and the expected 20% reduction of reserve days lost to PBS really turned into 40%.
And there's also some very nice information about the new software which we still don't have. The company will probably surprise us during negotiations.
Number of Reserve days still hits 100%. It's just that a minimum of 80% of them are published in the bidpack. (See 25.A.4)
Let's use the 777 bidpack as an example of fun with percentages.
777C has 20 Reserve lines. That equals 380 R days. Assuming the company's actually complying with the Contract, as monitoring has repeatedly show, that means 95 R days were reserved for the SLG system. (380/.8=475) Had all Known R days been published as Reserve lines, there would've been 25 Reserve lines published. (Little known CBA fact that the number of R24 lines percentage wise was increased to 13% in TA2015)
Still, we "lost" 5 R lines and that equals a loss of 40% of the Reserve lines for the month.
FO side a little different
50 Reserve lines so that's 950 R days, Rounding up equals 1188 R days. Rounding up gets the old R lines up to 63. Or a loss of 13 Reserve lines. 13/50 is a 26% loss.
VTO's have ALWAYS been Preferntial Bidding. It's just in the past they never really honored your Preferences because...it was a VTO Request.