Originally Posted by
climb150
My first job in aviation was scheduling.
If the rules are programmed in properly then anyone with basic computer skills can do it.
Allegiant doesn't know how to do multi day trips because they don't have the software. You don't need experience cause the software tracks duty hours and flight time and won't let you break any rules.
Any consultant could come set it all up in about 10 days.
this is naive. if it only takes about 10 days to setup a completely different crew management system (aka replace Merlot). yet management has spent years trying to move on from merlot.
i am pretty sure southwest had the same scheduling software for over thirty years and they just kept putting bandaids on it which eventually led to their epic meltdown Christmas 2022 (sky solver was one of those antique software systems). if you have actually worked in scheduling then you are intentionally being disingenuous to say it takes 10 days to implement the software and then anybody off the street can run an airline operation. just typing that made me want to vomit it is so absurd.
also, just because the software flags the scheduling people when they try to assign an illegal trip, doesn't mean it tells you how/where to cover the assignment from there. if that were case, you wouldn't need schedulers at all because the software would just automatically assign the flying. now that is what every executive is salivating for AI to do someday. But the idea that anybody off the street can run the operation because the scheduling software out there right does it all for you is laughable.
Like saying a the cashier at taco bell can do your taxes because excel does all the math - maybe they could do your taxes but you're gonna be paying the absolute max.