Originally Posted by nakazawa

Let's see - this is the 6th Bid/Posting in jeopardy. The Company has elected to utilize CBA 4.A.2.b. The Company has opted to disregard 26.K. The Company is using 'OPERATIONAL' to justify violating 5.B.2.a-e. The Company has opted to disregard 25.D.1.a-e and 25.D.2.a-e. The Company can't get HKG manned. The Company couldn't get ANC manned, so they hired Purple Nuggets. Now the Company is concerned the [furloughed] employees they may have 'snaked' from another airline (AA, DL, NWA, UAL) may be returning to their previous employer? The Company is having problems with cost, training, real estate expectations, and a total realignment of the seniority list.

Now - let me toss a note the other way. I haven't seen ANY of the MEM LECs publish data, information, or gouge on the ANC commute. I haven't seen any MEM LEC publish information about no-harm/no-foul with regards to ANC. I haven't seen any MEM LEC publish information about jump seating on ANY carrier - particularly through SEA - with regards to the ANC domicile. Yet - we have about 100 new crew members bidding to ANC, and probably 70 or so that have NEVER commuted to ANC.

This delay might be another of the many snafu's we've seen - but I'd suggest it might be a very good time for the crew force to do their due-diligence and make certain what they're doing.

A little more gouge? 25% of the ANC crew force has a sick event monthly (determined from calendar research)! Company average is about 4% - or so I'm told. Trip modifications in ANC cost the Company between $1.5 and $2.0 million per year in ANC (determined from initial trip value and trip post-flown value). If those sick events cover even the smallest ANC-OAK-ANC trip - reserve utilization is skewed, and manning models are grossly inaccurate! When you see a MEM deadhead or double-deadhead to ANC - it's because ANC wasn't manned to cover the trip - so those hours were moved. ANC is the most efficient domicile in the system - so . . . lets downsize it?

This bid shouldn't be cancelled because the software is AFU. It should be cancelled because Crew Resource Planning and Analysis is making a three dimensional decision from a one dimensional screen.