Originally Posted by
Proximity
I think JA is BS and that trips should be offered in open time at an every increasing premium multiplier until someone flies it.
But I knew in Jan 2020 when I read Fligthplan 2020 that getting rid of JA is not even a SWAPA ask, so it isn't going away. If you want to escape JA, you'll either need to go elsewhere, or when you do get JA'd take matters "into your own hands."
That's exactly what f9 alpa did to eliminate ja (An ever increasing premium folder). We got rid of ja last cycle. Management likes it to some extent because they get trips covered quicker. Couple that with reassignment out of origin footprint handcuffs such as, max number of legs to get back to domicile (2
incase of no direct flights) as well as make it expensive seems to work well. Looking back it’s probably best to make it a seniority based system like nk x,y. Otherwise it’s a bit of a free for all. The other nice thing about the folder is you can contractually require all opentime to go there during irregular ops. I’m not sure if you have something similar in irregular?