Originally Posted by HelloNewnan

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.