Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
There are generally mistakes in any AE processed. They normally will let them stick, or make a very small correction so not to have a cascading effect.
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Originally Posted by
sailingfun
There are errors made on virtually every AE. Its a very complicated process with multiple sometimes hundreds of loop backs. Parts are done by hand. Normally they correct any errors quickly. Normally they do not cancel a bid if they have to award a AE to someone else because they made a error. They simply carry the overage. If a additional AE pushes you below a qualifier you can call them and stay in your current category.
Guys,
I don't want to pretend the technical issues are not significant, and I'm not interested in debating how it was done at NW, but am I the only one here who thinks there is something dangerously wrong when errors are allowed in the chain, to be resolved individually only when somebody squeals, to prevent further legitmate "cascade" awards?
IOW, if one person's award affects the next person down, and so forth, but only a few errors along the way are fixed, doesn't that put into question the legitimacy of the entire award?
The company has always seemed to help themselves to an award they can live with, based on allowing extra AE's to certain categories, not forcing all displacements, etc. I can live with that, to an extent, because it affects a
group of pilots trying to get into a category, or stay in a category,
without discrimination. But what strikes me as unusual about this award is that it appears some of the
individual awards are incorrect for one pilot relative to another. Whether this was done for the sake of expediency, or for the sake of limiting training events, it tells me that there are potentially
many of us that didn't get what we diserved.
I'd like more clarity into the process, and I'd love to know more about how ALPA is involved. Is it a process as transparent as PBS? Because PBS does yield an occasional misaward, but overall it is proving trustworthy. For the first time since I joined Delta, the AE process doesn't look like it diserves the same respect.