Originally Posted by Buck Rogers

Gotcha. But the schedulers job is not to run hiring, nor training, nor revenue management/marketing. Their job is to get pilots' butts in seats for revenue flights. Consequently, they are going to make an effort to man the flight and with the PWA and IA as a schedulers step in trip coverage, I don't really see any way to circumvent the process.....Kinda like the spam calls I get even though I'm on the "No Call List" and have spam blockers. Nuisance ?...absolutely!. Not sure of the/any remedy.

If one has an answer, I'm all ears....otherwise it's just "Yelling at the clouds", which I've been lead to believe, is something that only old farts do.