Originally Posted by
TED74
We got something…it’s just not something that was important to everyone. Plenty of commuters were rightfully ticked off that GS coverage moved so slowly and then transitioned into IAs that they couldn’t get the premium flying they were due nor track if the right person (or anyone) was paid appropriately. Even if you don’t commute, more foresight on green slip assignments can now make some rotations flyable that previously were not. That is what I see as the most valuable end state for the winners here (yes there are losers), with tracking and transparency being less meaningful. Those who previously scored IAs they never could have held as timely green slips, and local folks who weren’t as encumbered by delayed assignments as commuters were are probably the big losers out of the settlement.
Fair enough. I'll change my wording to, we didn't get enough, or put in enough guide-rails. I'm all for spreading the wealth to commuters, but the timing piece would probably have been solved by covering trips two days out, we really didn't give that time to play out. Short notice GS would have still taken some time, but most people were either in the short notice bucket or they weren't. At the very least we should have retained some semblance of batch sizes, and not the free for all we have now. The promise on 23m7 kinda makes me laugh, especially when we still have schedulers calling from non recorded lines to offer side deals. Getting woken in the middle of the night with a batch size of 999 for a single rotation is beyond ridiculous. Yes I know about DND, but we shouldn't be forced to take ourselves out of the running for trips because the companies archaic software makes it a PITA to layer our preferences or turn on/off auto ack. If we had made that step easier and kept batch sizes, maybe widened to something like a percentage of pilots in category, I'd consider it a good deal. I get that others think it was a good deal. Maybe I'm just extra salty because yesterday I was re-reading all the stuff that does NOT pertain to the 717 in the last contract lol. Screwed on pay, screwed on trip mix, etc... Get off my lawn!