Originally Posted by
notEnuf
Once upon a time WS didn't use ARCOS and before that GS were manual and we had no ARCOS. The only reason for ARCOS was to reduce staffing in scheduling and automate a process that took scheduling manpower. Call each GS holder and ask is they are available for the trip. Green slips and IAs were once very rare and when they became more prevalent management wanted a lower workload system. Originally it was for GS and then WS were added and now my guess is they will negotiate to make it the default and try to move manual coverage to 8 hours and 23M7 everything uncovered at that point via ARCOS and QS.
This keeps getting repeated by a few, but it really doesn't mean its relevant any longer.
First, pre-2018, we had far less open time because trips were constructed with better buffers. Things simply broke less. Fewer broken trips, no rational fatigue policy, and far fewer rerotues.
Second, when they called you, they weren't proffers. Yea, same argument about IAs, and yea, there was some percentage of pilot group playing the game, but the fact of the matter is if someone called, a large percentage of the pilot group was going to take the trip, so it was a game of odds, and the odds were better then that someone would just take the trip. Truth is, there were substantially fewer GS, so people not only jumped on what was offered, people hoovered up open time at straight pay. Very few trips ran the gauntlet of open time to make it to GS.
Third, once inside 3 hours, there was no 10 minute window. They rolled calls until they found someone to take the trip, or someone senior called back.
The fact is, at this level of open time, you're not going to cover it in any reasonable amount of time with either a manual or automatic process, unless you go to a UAL system where it is first come first serve, and I'm really pretty sure none of us wants that. This problem needs to be solved a different way.