Originally Posted by
Frank Grimes
Phone calls go out in reverse seniority order, not all at the same time. Listen to the time stamp of the voice recorder to see what time it actually started vs when you get the phone call.
While this may be factually correct in the sense of the voicemail timestamp, it's totally irrelevant to what is currently happening.
What's currently happening is that if you got a phone call for an IA, don't bother. Some side-dealer already got the trip.
The 23M7/IA fiesta (and skipping of GS altogether) is fueled by pilots, unfortunately. If nobody answered their phones, much less proactively called CS to make side-deals, IA's wouldn't work the way they currently are working for the company.
It really boggles my mind when folks pile on against 23M7 "farmers", OOBWS, auto-accept or whatever. None of that **** matters if there isn't a collective of IA-seeking pilots chomping at the bit for the next opportunity to abrogate seniority and be first on the phone for the next IA.
QS cannot happen soon enough, and it's a crying shame that there is no true penalty to accelerate/enforce implementation.