Originally Posted by
crewdawg
I'd prefer they fix it by more properly staffing (or scheduling) the airline rather than us fixing it for them so they can continue to run everything hot. We used to do just fine when they had schedulers actually call pilots one-by-one, mainly because we didn't have the ridiculous number of GS we see these days. Bigger batch sizes simply allow them to continue the status quo, or worse, encourages them to push it even more. I sincerely hope our union doesn't give up current batch sizes, unless we get a giant ask in return.
we also had a lot less pilots (at least 2 or 3000 less) and not as many had blanket GS in. I also don't recall there being so many categories with over 400 pilots. I believe ATL 7ERB was the biggest a few years back. There's many factors. you'll always have premium trips at any airline. We need a viable way to get those trips covered instead of it taking 30 hours to get to the bottom of the list on these huge categories with 600 pilots.