Ya, that's part of my "not a well oiled machine" comment. Scheduling seems to have been min manned so bad that they can't seem to keep up. Lack of experience doesn't help either. In my scenario though, the trip was in open time only for an hour so and scheduling was on top of it. The process was severely slowed by two well known OOB 23m7 seekers who auto accept everything and almost never take anything. I blame the inability to easy turn on/off auto accept. This probably cost someone a GS. However, on the same day, a very senior buddy in that seat woke up and saw he had an IA call for an easy day trip, from hours prior. He called when he saw it still in open time and got it. It had been sent out W, I'm pretty sure he said it was sent green as well. That doesn't sound like a category well plenty of willing pilots laying around.

In July DTW320 (both sides), they put every trip in open time after mid month, up as silver slips. GS/IA calls were non stop for them. A 320B friend got 18 GS and 6 IA calls in one day. Many went unfilled. That doesn't scream plenty of pilots.