Originally Posted by
Hotel Kilo
To go further, and I read the ARCOS guide, can someone explain "Auto-acknowledge" and "Auto Accept". I do not fly green slips normally, and have not since we adopted ARCOS.
I want to not get the crazy VRU calls at all hours, but I also don't want to accept a trip (have it added to my schedule - accept might be the wrong term, see my confusions here?) until I get to QC it. So how would one set that up with ARCOS and the iCrew ranking preferences?
(If there is a union comm on this please point me to it and I'll read it, I might have missed it along the way)
TIA.
Originally Posted by Scheduling Alert 21-06
Auto-Accept & Auto-Acknowledge Options
For several years now, we have had the option to select Auto-Acknowledge While on Duty in conjunction with
same/next-day WS, yellow slip (YS) for flying on X-days, GS, and green slip with conflict (GSWC) requests. Selecting
this option allows you to be awarded a rotation while in a duty period, the simulator or an FTD, despite your inability
to be contactable. If you select this option, you are responsible for determining whether the rotation was awarded to
you while on duty.
This option will now be expanded to include periods of time during which you are not on duty. In addition, you will
have the ability to indicate whether you wish to be contacted by ARCOS during the offer window of a same/next-day
WS or GS call out, and select and rank order specific rotations and decline others from consideration.
Auto-Accept Option
Effective with the September 2021 bid period, you will have the option to auto-accept trip proffers during the offer
window, either while on duty, off duty, or both. If you select Yes to this option, ARCOS will not contact you during
the applicable offer window but will consider you to have accepted the proffer of all rotations that meet your
same/next-day WS or GS stipulations, as appropriate. These rotations will be ordered according to the preferences
laid out in your PCS Request Qualifiers, and you will be awarded the rotation that best meets those qualifiers and
that your seniority permits you to hold. Note that you will still have the option to decline the award during the
subsequent award window.
The "get out of jail" feature is not unconditional
you will have the option to auto-acknowledge rotation awards during the award window you are on
duty, off duty, or both. However, this applies only for rotations scheduled to report 12 or more hours from
notification of the award. Like beyond-next-day PCS awards, you will be expected to maintain awareness of trip
coverage if you select this option. Suppose you are awarded a rotation that is scheduled to report 12 or more hours
in the future using this option. ARCOS will not notify you of the award unless you are on duty at the time of the
award and you will be obligated to fly the rotation.
An award for a rotation reporting in fewer than 12 hours will require that you acknowledge the award if you do not
wish to be bypassed.
Bottom line:
Y Auto Accept: Trip is yours
Y Auto Acknowledge: You've waived the proffer
So with this 23 M. &. change the company can now call all players all night unless you put in a Do Not Call direction in iCrew. If you have N to Auto Acknowledge the company has to skip you for rotations reporting in <12 hours. If you have Y to Auto Acknowledge you have waived your proffer and the trip is YOURS - go fly it, no whining.
This whole mess is a degradation of pilot QOL and ostensibly will filter out the lookie-loos and the senior folks who benefit from errors in trip coverage. Literally a transfer for tens of millions of dollars from pilots back to Delta. For those of us who use the system to fly (as opposed not to fly but get paid) it is not a huge loss and possibly a gain. What we will have to watch out for is out of sequence coverage where crew scheduling can use the timing of trip coverage to sniper shoot the least costly (either in pay or time off) because many will be using Y & Y to catch the broken rotations < 12 hours to report.