Originally Posted by
Meme In Command
Ok, so auto accept in and of itself doesn't affect if a senior pilot is gonna get 23.M.7 pay, they just need to have the slip in. But by virtue of so many having auto accept on and gumming up the system, the company is force using IA's which then drives senior pilots collecting 23.M.7, did I get this right?
That is how I understand it. But I'd push back on the idea that auto accept is the reason the company is forced to use IA's. It may be a contributing factor, but I don't see it as a root cause. That is more a factor of how they choose to "run hot," and their crew scheduling hiring/staffing decisions. As has been talked about before, we see trips sit in open time for hours before coverage is started and even then it sometimes sits on a pilots line for up to an hour, even after they've rejected it.