Originally Posted by
tennisguru
My idea is just one to fix the process. There also needs to be more automation/contractual langauge that would prevent trips from sitting uncovered for so long before trip coverage starts. And more automation in the ARCOS process of running through the award/decline process within a callout. The company sitting on trips doesn't do them any favors either when they have to triple pay to cover it. And sitting and skipping WS to go to IA costs the company more money even if they "forget" to mark that 23M7 was used. I don't think scheduling is nefarious in letting trips go uncovered (or sitting on people's schedule after declining an award) for long periods of time. I think it is simply a combination of incompetence and understaffing.
Like I said the company needs to clean up their act first, but even if/when they do there inevitably will still be flying that gets uncovered at the last minute that needs some sort of mechanism for rapid covering, with premium pay and with 23M7 due.
We already have this in the coverage ladder, they just need to use it properly. They have untouched tools that are more than appropriate. Reroute was so regular that we negotiated extra pay. That's in the ladder well before IAs and why are we not seeing it to the level we did in 2019? Because they are cheap. It worked fine for years when we weren't getting paid. This is about enforcing the current agreement, not rewriting them into compliance for their ineptitude.