Originally Posted by
Halon1211
You aren’t telling the whole story.
days off has priority over what reserve period you are. Yeah someone junior to you may if got the reserve period but you got the days off.
so then just don’t put a days off request and you should get your reserve period and not have to whine anymore!
This is completely incorrect.
The system awards days off FIRST. Even if you have zero preferences for days on and off the system will give you something. THEN, AFTER your days on and off are awarded it will attempt to give you your preferenced RAP. If it cannot give you the RAP you want on the work days it awarded to you (with your input or not) it will not award that RAP. Even if it could award your RAP on 17 out of 18 days it will not award. You also have no idea ahead of time which days may not require any or little coverage of your preferred RAP so you can bid around that day.
Not preferencing days on and off does not improve your chances of getting your preferred RAP. Seniority does play a roll and if you are senior (line holder bidding back to reserve) there can be some, not complete confidence you will get your preferenced RAP. It is not a sure thing though.
We can see how many lines of each RAP we have each month. What we need is a list of how many of each RAP we have each day of the month. If the company for example only wants 2 pilots on R19 on say 2/10/22 and R19 is your preferred RAP you know that unless you are very senior you probably shouldn’t bid in a way that would have you working on 2/10/22 because the system most likely won’t be able to award you R19 in February because of that one single day only needing two pilots on that RAP. They have this information but it’s not disseminated to the pilots for some reason.