Originally Posted by
waldo135
To be clear, the increased use of IA is to some extent (how much is up for debate) due to the use of auto-accept. It only takes 6 auto-accepts that don’t answer to eat up an hour of trying to cover the trip.
Possibly. If I do use auto-accept, which is rare, I always try to immediately decline the award if I don't want it. That way scheduling can immediately move on to the next person instead of waiting 12 minutes for it to time out. If more people did that then the process would speed up considerably. But the other problem is that even when a pilot declines it sometimes takes scheduling a long time to pull the rotation and award it to the next person in line. That process needs better automation to help speed things up.