The solution wasn’t agreed upon by the pilot group because there was no vote. The system is completely broken, it will be completely broken with QS’s with unlimited batch sizes and no autoaccepts.

We need to go back to batch sizes and no autoaccepts (except for specific exceptions like accept while on duty). There needs to be an agreed upon formula for batch sizes vs time to report. For example, more than 24 hours out, batch size of 1. Maybe from 12-24 hours batch size of 2, etc.

The only thing we should be negotiating is how far out the ramp up happens and how big the batch sizes can get. Maybe you can have some reductions once it passes through sleeping hours. Maybe it’s an absolute number or it’s based upon percentage of category size or a combination of the two. We can choose to keep the batches at 1 or 2 until fairly close in and then rapidly increase the batch size or we can have it grow more gradually farther out. It’s all up for discussion.

At the end of the day short notice trips need to get covered and the only way to do that is with calling more people at once. There is no other way.

As mentioned before, at 12 min per autoaccept that’s 5 pilots per hour. Atl has categories of 600+ people. Trips will never reach the bottom half of that category no matter what, as it stands.

A sliding batch size scale vs time to report, based upon an agreed upon formula is a sensible way to minimize disturbance to pilots while ensuring close in trips are covered in time.