Originally Posted by
TED74
I don’t know if you’re in the minority or the majority, but many of us don’t want incessant calls and notifications all day every day simply because the company is incompetent with their operation. We also don’t want to miss opportunities to actually fly a green slip we deem worthwhile.
Just like the old days when we functioned just fine with phone calls, when the company reaches out to me I want to know there’s a good chance I can have the offered work.
I certainly think there must be batch size limits. Before we had batch sizes I was getting calls at 2 or 3am for a rotations that sometimes reported in more than 12 hours where I was the 15th or 20th pilot in line. So now I'm awake and I check ARCOS and #2 and #5 pilots have already said they want it. And that was a GS with parameters I would fly, not a fishing expedition.
That kind of incompetence and total disregard for crew members is why we need batch sizes. I agree we might need to go to percentage based or more dynamic sizes based on time to report.
I shouldn't have to turn my phone off when I'm ready and willing to fly because they are incapable of not nuisance calling 50 pilots.
We did not make this staffing 'situation', let's not talk concessions to fix their self-induced crunch.