Originally Posted by flyallnite

What it amounts to is that Crew Skeds can assign any trip to anyone for that day or the next day, based on a "list" that only they can produce and see, of the people who had white/yellow slips in. Gone are the days when they would help you out and give out a white slip to a guy who wants to fly over a guy on reserve. They have way too much leeway in how they assign open time over a two day window. They claim that it's because they need a list to go off of, but the FA's have been able to do swaps and drops and pickups in real time for years. You can bet the company has the absolute best software for tracking pilots, but when it comes to us being able to pick up trips and make money... well, they just don't have the resources Of course, the ALPA guys can pick up using special rules. But for the rest of us, you are at the mercy of a scheduler who will give out open time more than a day in advance to a reserve instead of awarding a white slip. Total B.S. and needs to be addressed in the next contract.