Originally Posted by
marcal
Despite our good operational stats pre-ARCOS, the company brought it in because it is super efficient at assigning available work in a rapid amount of time when used properly. ARCOS is used by utility companies to assign work when blizzards, hurricanes, and other calamities take out power, gas, and water lines.
Could you imagine if those workers had 12 minutes per person to respond to these situations? No. It would be a public nightmare. They blast them all, they get assigned ASAP and things get fixed.
It's only the most self entitled pilots that choose to put in slips, and then complain when those calls come in, that have somehow won the battle to put time restrictions in to the PWA.
It is baffling, aggravating and the company will never, ever put that power back in any labor groups hands. Why? Because it is absolutely ridiculous and anathema to running a business.
I can't believe a pilot is advocating for unlimited batch sizes. My entire point was Delta had a workable solution for years and screwed it all up starting with ARCOS. The app itself is not the point, it's the change in how they covered things AND how much they needed to cover AND how many reserves were available to cover.