Originally Posted by
Herkflyr
You're (deliberately and intentionally) leaving out an important part. GS were never proffers pre- ARCOS and neither were next day WS. Also literally zero pilots put in OOB anything without the hope that they would actually be awarded and fly such a trip. Those factors were all the difference in the world.
I left it out because they were treated like proffers. The overwhelming majority of pilots would look at the trip and call back within the window if they wanted it. If they didn't like it, the trip sat there until they moved to the next pilot. This was done with a human making calls.
The company made this bed.