Originally Posted by
Denny Crane
I don’t know how long you’ve been here but it has not “always been this way” with reserve. When I was hired there was no such thing as a RAW score etc. Assigning trips on reserve always went to the junior guy until s/he was filled up. This is exactly the problem, from a company perspective, the RAW system was designed to solve. It keeps some semblance of seniority while allowing reserve flying to be spread out more equitably. The same thing applies to Greenslip’s. It used to be strictly seniority based only. Not the current senior guy gets one then goes to bottom of list for the month.
Denny
while there seem to be some things at DL where seniority is weighed too heavily (IMO pass travel should be time of check in not DOH, but I know not everyone agrees and I respect that) .from the best I can tell, reserve, green slips, and vacation all seem to be very reasonable and equitable. To a reasonable extent, senior people should get first crack at premium flying and have first choice to fly or not on reserve. And in most circumstances, everyone but the bottom 500 or so active pilots made a choice as to their relative seniority.