Originally Posted by
Frank Grimes
The acceptance rate is not sensational. Every auto accept and subsequent decline counts as a trip being offered and not being picked up (being accepted). That's the point they were trying to make of it going from 35% to 2%.
While true you have to look at the root cause. More pilots adopted AA because they were getting incessant calls for things they would never be awarded... due to excessive amounts of uncovered open time because of a
staffing shortage.