Originally Posted by
Meme In Command
Cool, but that's no longer reality. Auto Accept also wasn't meant to be used in the manner pilots are using it now.
The pilot group AND CS have crossed a Rubicon. IA's are not going back to the old days of hunting the plug down at the jet bridge. And even if scheduling walked back the batch size deal it's not going to stop pilots from submitting slips on an attempt to farm 23M7. The effort to reward ratio is too good.
This is going to lead to a reworking of the coverage ladder, and we handed them auto accept when we took the QS. The other 16,000 pilots not in this forum are happy to stop paying a few dozen 23M7 farmers to go back to the old status quo of Arcos calling every now and then with a GS.
A lot of people here may disagree, but the average joe flying the line thinks the farmers sitting at home with no intent to fly are part of the problem.
The coverage ladder is just fine, it doesn't need to be "re-worked" and if you think so I don't think you'll like the outcome of that ("we never thought they would do that to us" comes to mind years down the road).
It's apparent here many don't understand VAS. Puddytatt has explained it to you I would as well, but he's already mentioned it now twice in what is written in 23. EE
The company has made the conscious decision to soak trips until close in then hit the IA panic button. "We" (as a collective group) happily gobble them up. So wash-rinse-repeat. Someone has to break the death spiral here, it sure won't be the company. They are under staffed on both pilots and CS folks so they found a workable short cut rather than doing the right thing and hire more people. Myself and others have pointed that out as root cause many times already. The farmers are going to farm, it's really nothing new. Just happens more frequently now due to the actions of CS hitting the IA button. How do you change behavior? There's a simple answer to that. DALPA is trying to make it more costly using the IA panic button via 25-05 as well as trying to get some semblance of seniority respected in the process. How it plays out remains to be seen. Re-working the coverage ladder in my opinion is a not so good idea.