Originally Posted by
Avgeek7248
One of the few things I thought Alaska did better then us is bidding specifically long call and short call for a month with no conversions. Commuters could bid long call and know they won’t be converted to go sit short call with the normal ALV. If you lived in base you would or could bid short call and the guaranteed reserve credit would jump from 72 to 80. Financially incentivizing those in base to bid short call while allowing those who commute the assurance they won’t have to needlessly come into base and not get used. Win win imo. Also had nice features like princess parking if you were called within 4 hours of the actual report on short call which depending on the base could be great or useless. Food for thought.
Automatic princess parking is really nice.
Past problem with SC lines is having the same callout the entire month. Definitely don't want the crap shoot like JetBlue. Would we bid for specific times each block of reserve, day by day? How did Alaska handle the times?
I feel like making entire lines of SC is too much change leading to unintended consequences. Past airline had them, we saw all the LC get used first. Scheduling would break up trips just to get the LC pilot in the system, making them commute anyway (a lot like they are using SC now).
Voluntary SC with more credit for each one and no limit seems like the sweet spot unless I'm missing something.