Originally Posted by
crewdawg
Those people can say it wasn't a give, but it most certainly was, how much of a give is what's in question. I'm not saying we should haven't changed batch sizes, but we should have gained a bit more than what we did. Nevermind we we gave up to get batch sizes. I don't disagree that our batch sizes were too stringent, but there should have been a cap/guardrails put in place. Getting a call at 0300 for a 1700 report with a batch of 99, when I'm number 69 and it goes to #2, isn't the anwser. Are they always like that, no, but I've had a my fair share of them. Honestly, something as simple an easy to use "slider" to turn on/off GS request in ARCOS, or turn on/off auto-accept, would have been a win. One of the "gains," they're apparently not even following lol.
The old system was costing the company millions. It was also a driving force behind many of the staffing-related IROPs that we saw from 2021-early 2023. ALPA could have set the price tag nice and high (i.e. PS commuting + equivalent benefit for in-base pilots, UA deadhead language, further limits on GFB calls), all while sitting back and waiting for DBMS API access to begin. At that point, automated enforcement would have enabled near-100% enforcement of 23M7 violations, raising the company’s costs even more.
The leverage there was massive, and was worth far more than a slider switch.