Originally Posted by
MrBojangles
Math is the issue..it's not your chances of the trip, it's the time it takes to get down the list. Once people that actually want to fly the trips get GS1, as the month goes on those people just fishing for 23M7 and batch violation money go to the top of the ARCOS list since they haven't take a GS yet. So as the month goes on it takes longer and longer to find a person that will actually fly the trip. I've been past 200 before on the callout list. It's impossible if you have a trip signing in lets say in 5 hours with a batch size of 5 to get through all that (that would get them to 100 on the list). And that's just GS. That doesn't account for WS and OOBWS.
It's still not our problem. The company chose to optimize the rotations, they chose to let all of the experienced schedulers leave, they chose to not admit mistakes were made with manning in 2020 and they are continuing to not upgrade their technology. Schedulers still have to work in DOS, I really don't know how ARCOS is loaded for the calls but suspect it is not nearly a simple process. The company has still chosen to not staff the airline correctly and relies on premium pay to cover trips.
Did I leave out, the company still wants to violate the contract any way they can because - IROP. IROP is not a get out of jail free card, especially if it is self inflicted.