Originally Posted by
PowderPilot2016
We can argue all we want about how we got here and whose fault it is but we are here. Both sides need to fix it.
No. It's 100% management's problem to fix. It's not even an argument, because objectively, it was their decision to run things this way. Get the pilot vs pilot narrative out of here.
1) We used to have double the number of schedulers when we had 7k pilots. It was the company's choice to cut back.
2) We have VAS available in the contract for them to use, but a scheduling manager said their system doesn't let them utilize them. It's the company's choice to not update DBMS.
3) c19 used to have no auto accept, manual human callouts to one pilot at a time, and batch sizes limited based on waking hours. It was the company's choice to ditch all this and move to ARCOS enabled unlimited batch sizes with auto accept.
4) We have PBS premium rotations and premium reserve options in the contract, which would lessen what people want to drop and swap to clear their schedule, but it's the company's choice not to pay for any of that either.
How are both sides responsible for this again? I see 100% management choices here.