Originally Posted by
Trip7
Zero. I clear my schedule every month using a variety of techniques that are shown in the Optimize your Schedule document from the Union.
OOBWS does not break ARCOS. It's simply the coverage step prior to in base GS. Also to address the OOBWS angst, it shouldn't be much of an issue to a strategic Greenslipper. Majority of OOBWS folks snap up silly easy broken up trips that most pilots WS, saving GS for longer, higher paying 3 and 4 day trips.
Good. Surely you are aware that others do not follow your approach.
Let’s talk about the problem. We have 643 320B’s in ATL. If half that number had slips in each step of coverage would run 4 hours during the day and 21 hours at night. Guessing that many slips are not in, but CS tells me it is running four hours to get through WS and OOBWS. So, they randomly (every CS does it differently) go to IA, which means OOBWS are also not getting the love. Every CS who has talked to me and a manager complain about the OOBWS wildcard. You have probably noticed that is where CS goes to IA. In this case causation and correlation are the same.
Smaller categories probably aren’t seeing this. ATL 320, 737, 7ER are frustrated. Trip assignment is seemingly random and unfair (if we consider seniority “fair”)