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.
Exactly this. Now imagine a broken up 2 day in a large NB category in ATL where it has to make its way through in base white slip, OOBWS and then GS. In that time there could EASILY be DOZENS of pilots who are not responding to auto accept awards whether it's intentional or not. The solution is not to just give up auto accept. But negotiated improvements could benefit both sides.