Originally Posted by
BlueSkies
The choices shouldn't be give up batch sizes or turn off your phone.
With regards to abandoning batch size limits to solve their problem, that doesn't solve the problem of unwanted calls at 2am for trips you could never get. Then we just go back to ARCOS calling any and all pilots legal for a particular GS even if it's at 3am and the GS reports at 3pm. You could still have a pretty specific slip in that 25 other pilots senior to you have in as well and it'd call all 26 pilots...at 3am.
Chances are slim that all 25 ahead of you decline it but not impossible. So if we followed your advice, 'just turn off your phone!' then you miss that GS (based on specific parameters in this example, not a blanket slip) that you were willing to fly...because batch sizes are bad and handcuff the schedulers too much?
Without batch sizes, 9/10 times that's a nuisance call at 3am, but the other time you just missed a GS. And sorry, it's not acceptable to call all the pilots legal for a GS at 3am just because they can and it saves the scheduler a little bit of work, hence why we have batch size limits. I don't know if the details of the new batch sizes have been released yet but I'll be interested to see them.
Just to play devil’s advocate for a second…With greatly expanded batch sizes, trips would get covered much faster, less 23M7, so less guys with blanket GS in trying to get paid for violations with no chance of actually flying a GS. Also, with larger batch sizes, less chance to no chance of batch size violations, so less people putting in blanket GS just trying to get paid for those violations. And, if there was NO batch size, there would almost never be a 3AM call since trips would be covered in 30 minutes or less vs the HOURS it takes now.
I’m not advocating for no batch size limit, but increasing it has definite upsides. For those that keep claiming “we shouldn’t fix the company’s problems”, let’s be honest and admit that we (through everyone putting in a blanket GS just to try to get paid for violations) is making the problem much worse that it should be.