Originally Posted by
Bph320
Now I have to agree with your last two paragraphs regarding ALPA drops and management cherry picking trips. I can add on to this by saying that ALPA MEC meetings should be be held at the Schaumburg, IL Best Western and not the Hilton in Kona.
I have to disagree a little regarding the trip trading. It can certainly stand improvement. For every trip I drop I usually have about 5 or 6 different trade requests in place to get rid of it. If one of those trade requests is successful then the other 4 or 5 are irrelevant since the trip is gone. Our own MEC said that only about 20% of trades requested get executed as part of their argument to end trip trading 2 years ago. So based on my trading strategy, according to our MEC, trading is useless.
Many pilots believe that they can wait until 2 days before their trip to enter a trade request and have a high expectation of getting out of it. Chances are that someone was sitting on the computer at noon on the 20th of the previous month putting in trip drop requests for that same date but they have an early time stamp so they will get it before they other guy who waited.
This being said, it can certainly stand improvement and will probably be scrapped when we most likely go to CALs system.
I put many trades in on the 20th for the time stamp and have always been active trading but 777 in ord as far as cap there is very little trades that go through.
Have already heard we will be switching to cal is what I have been told for what it is worth.
have had many discussions about this system and it seems like most people know of the problems and that I am sure with it's limitations does not help sick use one bit.