Originally Posted by
CBreezy
More than one thing can be true at once. There are absolutely senior pilots who have auto-accept on who have no intent to actually operate a GS/WS. You don't need to have auto-accept to be the harmed pilot under 23M7. The ONLY thing it's doing is slowing things down unnecessarily. Whether you want to believe it, doing this does far more harm to mid-seniority pilots than hurts the company. They just move to 23M7. The only people who get paid are guys in the top 1% and pilots who are super junior who get the IA call before anyone senior to them.
Yes, the company is the problem. They are the ones who don't staff properly. But also auto-accepts with zero intent to fly are also causing this slow down as well.
Those pilots are still playing by the rules though. There is zero requirement in the PWA to have a certain level of “intent to fly” prior to submitting a slip — with or without auto accept. Most pilots have blanket green slips submitted all month long, but very few actually intend to fly every day. My personal “intent to fly” varies throughout the month based on what else I have going on, and the quality of trips being offered. That’s the beauty of our proffer system.
The company is not always playing by the rules / PWA, which is the real issue. The pros / cons of the current PWA terms that we operate under can be hashed out in section 6.