Originally Posted by
m3113n1a1
This. Most airlines get same day results. I'd even accept next day.
It seems like whoever processes our bids doesn't work weekends and gets Columbus day off. It's little things like this that would cost Delta very little and increase moral amongst the pilot group. But instead they just keep creating more disgruntled pilots who are less likely to go above and beyond.
While I would love for them to come out earlier, I disagree that releasing them one more day early would have any morale benefit. They already come out several days prior to the deadline and here we are upset that it's not early enough. At my old airline, they'd come out 1 hour prior to the deadline.
To the other poster who suggested a much earlier timeline in general, the union already said the company was struggling to meet the deadline to have the bid packets available to them to review. I would imagine moving it up substantially earlier than current would be a tall ask, especially because it would require discussions with network