Originally Posted by
fcoolaiddrinker
It would be nice to regain a seniority based mot process. We had that and gave it up in pbs. The problem we had with it was the ability to split trips and when you did that rig would go away. Because it became Pilot modified. The result was a bunch of garbage no rig trips once daily opened. The good opentime went away with pbs as well as no more transition or sr vac/training drops so it didn’t make a whole lot of sense to keep it. We now have a required mix of holdback daily opentime. I believe it’s 4% of block? Is a required holdback how your mot process is stocked? These guys will get the best of both worlds. But yes in the end there always will need to be a grid number so staffing isn’t an issue.
For what it’s worth, very few of our trips would be able to be split under a requirement to touch the originating domicile. Most of our multi-day trips only touch base on the first and last legs. The base turns are almost always built as day trips. With the two airlines merging this could be an interesting wrinkle in schedule construction if base touching is much more common at F9. It would make trip splitting relevant. We don’t have the ability to split trips at all in our current language.
We do have a tradeboard - no restrictions.
I’m not up on the exact process of selecting the trips that will be withheld to stock IOT. I think there’s some union/company collaboration but I don’t know exactly how it works.