Originally Posted by
Iceberg
Weekends are when staffing is shortest. If a pilot can’t hold weekends off but flies a greenslip on weekdays when staffing is “better” thus getting their weekend off, is that the same as a regular flying a greenslip on the weekdays and then also flying their trip on the weekend? If categories end the month with zero available reserves because they are full/payback day covered, does that help the company? What are you taking issue with?
I've had very good results with Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays off this year. It's all about low black days on the res table. But yes, weekends tend to have the lowest numbers. In the summer, with all the 5 days the likelihood of a trip hitting one of those days is very high. Breaking trips costs the company more because the precious credit is added, thereby destroying the pre-bid optimization the company has built into the trips in the bid package. If they can, they will keep the trip in tact. The company has no clue how detrimental this ridiculous trip mix and optimization is to the system. This is why I won't bid a regular line now. Then, you add a reroute or a duty period that runs late and the trip you thought you had disappears. The company can't even answer a phone in a timely manner, there is no ability to plan or react so the GSs are handed out like candy on Halloween and that solves their problem. Fine by me.