Originally Posted by
tennisguru
I think his point was if scheduling is mass-dropping SS then the category is critically short staffed. That means no blue days where you could straight up PD a rotation of any length. Your only option to free up days would be some sort of swap or more likely use your APD or IVD on a day you don’t want to pick up a SS.
Fair point, if that's the case. But I'm not convinced that it is necessarily the case. SS are issued at company discretion. Sure they may be more likely to be issued in a short-staffed category, but not necessarily.
If SS are issued, it has no direct affect on the swapping/dropping of trips for pilots that don't participate in them.
In fact, I could go on a limb and say that SS are being issued on trips that are statistically less likely to be picked up by shorter-notice WS. I.e. the crappy trips. The driver being that they know the "good" trips will be plucked up by WS as they become shorter notice. SS being used as a massaging function rather than strictly an understaffing function. As for mass-dropping SS... who knows?
Has anyone seen a juicy easy credit trip awarded as a SS?