Originally Posted by
MrBojangles
your argument seems focused on the fact that there are a lot of open time trips..not the coverage of them. that's a different argument. All i'm talking about is how these trips get covered. Yes, there are many factors affecting why there is so much more open time now, from the crappy trips nobody wants to fly, to the fatigue calls, to the lack of staffing. Those are relevant for why theres so much open time, but not for how they are covered. Would you agree that taking 30 hours to cover a trip in open time is excessive? That's low batch sizes. we could have a category of 1 million pilots and because they only call 1 or 5 per batch it still wouldn't get covered. see my point?
I think this is a chicken egg argument. They have huge amounts of open time to cover and need/want pilots to fly extra to cover them. The current system to cover open time would work just fine if they didn’t have so much open time. Pilots would jump at the first chance for a green slip if they didn’t think there were a hundred other chances that they could pick and choose from later on. So trips would be covered in the first batch or two. So I think it is a legitimate and the best solution for us and the company to properly staff the airline so they don’t have so much open time. Thus batch sizes wouldn’t even be an issue.