Originally Posted by
hockeypilot44
Anyone else think it's ridiculous that the ace app is backed up to 25 days last time I heard? There was a time when I would get a response from the scheduling committee on the same day. This was all pre-covid and before the union purge. 25 days. 3 1/2 weeks. Absurd.
I think it's ridiculous that you're complaining about the ALPA volunteers that are processing the ACE reports. I flew with one the other day - he is dedicated, works hard and said two things. First, the reroutes, 23K and inexperienced schedulers are causing the number of reports to shoot up, and 2, a decent number of the issues could be resolved with a phone call to scheduling by the pilot. (he understands they take forever to answer the phone now) but often they can rectify the issue then and there.
Example - I had an ARCOS call in the middle of the night - I noticed (in my groggy state) that the batch size was too big. I screenshotted it and went back to sleep. Next afternoon, I called scheduling - after ten minutes on the phone while they researched it, I had 2 hours of pay on my schedule. Problem solved.
And like others said, WE are ALPA - if you don't like how ALPA is doing something, reach out to your reps, and join a committee. There seems to be plenty of work to go around.