Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
We really have about the same schedule, except Open Time, Swaps, Personal Drops etc are taken care of by the computer. All the schedulers do is set min staffing levels and it does the rest. It can be good and bad.
Heyas ACL,
Yea, I know what you mean. Sometimes the schedulers can "massage" your open time request if it bails them out of another bad situation the computer might not see.
I had a deal like that a few months ago. Our book puts some restrictions on beginning/end of month swaps. It's a left over from the old transition period that was eliminated with the shift to PBS.
Anyway, a computer swap probably would have just denied it, but they had a BUNCH of open trips on the day I was trying to swap into, and they approved it because, big picture wise, it made things better.
Nu