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Halpilot
No idea what L$ means, but I am really bummed out to hear that the much hyped "new and improved" Flexbid, isn't living up to the description I was given. Is this a third party app., or is it entirely proprietary? Are you folks that are giving it a thumbs down pretty junior? Do you feel like the new system is not honoring seniority as well as the old system? The only PBS systems I've used, were driven purely by seniority. As it was explained to me, a lack of seniority, or a bad case of juniority, means you have to be realistic about what you wish for, and what you get. Is the company soliciting feedback and promising improvements based on feedback? Anyone heard any Flexjet projections on hiring and expansion in 2024? I imagine if they continue to lose pilots to the legacy carriers, they will have to address widespread unhappiness with Flexbid's performance.
It's an internal app that is just another tab inside a proprietary app used for other day to day stuff. Seniority "biased" is one way to put it. But more so, at the end of the day they are always going to try to get airplanes crewed; since they refuse to pay people to stay, it means short manpower that falls to those who remain. And no - those giving thumbs-down are not inherently junior (yours truly for example) and I'm sure the company will get feedback - they are usually good about that lately. But I certainly don't predict any significant changes any time soon either.
Forums can be toxic - so I'll reiterate - there's very good people here, good intentions-ish, good perks in some respects, and to me its been a very low-drama place to be, with approachable people in HQ. If non-121 is you thing, then full-send. But there are some shortcomings in the FlexBid system, length of rotations, and career compensation. I'll try to leave, but by no means bitter or ill-will'd about it. The decision is purely related to length of rotations and career earnings. Neither one of those will change significantly in this decade; At the end of the day Kenn has essentially said that he doesn't pay as much as the airlines do, but will work harder to avoid furloughs in downturns (not to be a kool aid drinker but I truly believe he'll try to follow through on that in good faith). That's not enough to make me stay, but it doesn't make it an awful place to work, so I don't want to send the wrong message.