December Bidpacks Delayed
 

Optimizer can't run fast enough! :mad:

With as much as they're using it...You'd think they'd try a little KY, to keep it moving smoothly!!

Quote:
ALL DECEMBER BIDPACKS WILL BE DELAYED APPROXIMATELY 24 HOURS, with publication estimated to be sometime Friday afternoon. Please adjust any timeline activities accordingly. Bid closing dates have not changed.

:confused:

What activities occur before the bid closes?

Last time it was delayed the SIG actually made some city purity improvements....

I know, I know...I said something POSITIVE but it was the case... Hoping for more of the same this time.

Let's see - a delay of 24 hours would put the bidpacks coming out after close of business on Friday. Maybe they all wanted to be out of the offices just in case someone hasn't viewed the "Violence in the Workplace" video ;)

At the union meeting on Tuesday, the SIG guy said that now that have cranked up the "Domestic Solve" (optimizer) on the 727 and Airbus, that the MD-11 is next. Maybe they really are waiting until after close of business Friday?

Or ... maybe the December bid month came up by surprise this year, yeah that's it. They were too busy dealing directly with the pilots about the rental deposits to have the bid packs ready on time?

Delayed due to huge number of disputed pairings :mad:


From Vic Liberti

The situation is so bad now that the SIG initially disputed 114 MEM MD11 lines for December! Let me repeat that -114 lines! The Company agreed to fix some of them, and some further compromises may be achieved as time goes on. But nevertheless, whatever the eventual outcome (and I'm sure the Company will do some fancy footwork to keep this information from surfacing), this should be a clear wakeup call to all as to what is transpiring and unchecked, what can happen in the future.

I heard they were busy trying to send us all computers so we could read the bidpacks... That must be the cause of the delay.

<------- Waiting for my Commadore 64 to show up...

Jeez...the bidpacks used to come out faster back when they were only paper? now that it's all electronic, they come out later and later?:-)
Z