Originally Posted by
172skychicken
If you honestly believe that the legions of people using auto accept and not responding to the award calls, particularly those who have zero intention of actually flying a trip aren't harming their fellow pilots then I don't know what to tell you. The company has absolutely made their bed but the idea that the pilot group has zero culpability in what is happening is not grounded in reality.
Pilots are harming other pilots, company actions are doing that. Also, is it really "legions?" Though we have one in my category, I see most with auto accept, decline stuff they're not taking. It only takes a few O dark:30 calls where you're #60 and #2 takes it, to change behavior. When someone complains about this, people mock them and tell them to use auto accept. Well guess what, they're using auto accept.
There are plenty of things they could do to lessen the number of people with auto accept on. For one, they could make it easier to turn auto accept on/off by updating icrew or adding something into ARCOS. They could better automate the assignment process so the 23m7 payments drop significantly. Or they could simply use realistic batch sizes...I know, crazy idea. Also, I never said we didnt have some culpability. We absolutely do and it came from when we gave away batch sizes in the first place.
Originally Posted by
172skychicken
But hey, if you want to fly premium let's all go sit at the airport to make it easier for the company to cover that first turn on the rotation.
Well, we gave them those options so clearly we were OK with them. Plenty of people happy to take a VAS or stby rotation on a GS. The few I've seen go out, worked out quite well for the recipients.