Originally Posted by
LumberJack
For something a week out I could see the problem, but if they're skipping WS the trip is fairly close-in. Come March you're now flying it as a QS instead. Isn't that a net gain?
Close-in WS are generally all I fly and I highly doubt I'll be getting 8-10 QS/month.
Originally Posted by
notEnuf
Once they start a step they have to finish it. If that looks like it will take too long, then 23M7 will go senior everytime because they cant count on the 100th person who actually wants that OBWS to actually have a chance to acknowledge it. They can't take the chance it doesn't finish, they can't skip a pilot(s) within a step and they can't run concurrent coverage on multiple steps. This shifts the seniority problem back to where it should be, seniority order for the premium trip and senior slip holder that should have had the trip.
Hence why I say people who actually want to fly a WS, will have to call scheduling and tell them that they'll take the trip if they run it. Quite a few trips have gone IA with 5-10 hours to report, that I'd have gladly flown W if they had actually run the step. In my small category, even with the recent IA mess, there has rarely been more than 5-10 guys with a WS in for such trips. For us, it's OOBWSers that gum it all up.