Originally Posted by
dmhpilot
Facts. Friends at UA get chewed on for picking up trips per the contract when they become available under aggressive pick up…because more senior people don’t know or understand how the provision works. SM bots tell me the new aggressive pickup at AA is driving senior pilots batty.
As a UA pilot, I’ve never seen this. Maybe what you mean is aggressive pick up when it comes to premium? If that’s the case, that’s because we have a tiered system. 50%/75%/100%. Senior guys HATE when a junior guy picks up a trip for 50% premium because the senior guys wait for the trip to go to 100% (y’all’s 200%).
Senior guys want it to go to 100%, but that would mean only the top 20% of each category would get premium. 50%-75% seem to be the only way more junior guys get any premium.
We also don’t have bot users because our IT is robust and won’t allow it. What we do is put in a pick up criteria and the system will honor it if it can. That’s part of the internal workings of our tradeboard though and everyone has access to that