They have the Internet on computers now?

Yea, don't you remember, Al Gore brought us that.

I understand your viewpoint TonyC, but the CBA does not say a lot of things and the Company has the right to control access to it's business machines. You are correct that our CBA secures us "access" to the Computers but I see nothing that prevents the Company from making Infosec policies that require you to be a live person and not share or store your password in order to use said machines.

Magic disk and green screen may have worked that way before but that does not mean, IMHO, that the Company can't change their minds. Fact is that IT is way different than those years and I think it is bad advice to imply that there is nothing wrong with remote access to ViPs any longer since they have made a clear statement. To do so now puts those users at risk and we do not need more pilots fired.

Seniority has nothing to do with OT, hence "open." Only time stamps and legality matter, not when you were hired.

Agreed! It should be First Come, First Served... But there is no reason it shouldn't be real time and more transparent.

Well said.

There would need to be some lag or waiting period, otherwise, you'd never be able to use OTP or PMU.

Exactly. Make it "real time" for a trip leaving in a couple of hours, but as the trip gets farther out, increase the window before it is assigned until is is at least 24 hours. That protects those out flying. The order of assignment for those longer out there can be based on some other metric, starting with OTP, PMU, then maybe leveling/hours cap (my preference), seniority, inverse seniority, or some other parameter.

With regards to my comment about CAPTCHA codes and whether the response should be supplied by a human or a program ...

I am not prohibited from storing my password and my eGrid on a secure computer. Therefore, if I open my laptop and click one button to log on the pilot.fedex.com automatically, I have violated no policy. They may have intended for me to read the CAPTCHA and look at my eGrid and enter three alpha-numeric characters manually, but if my program does it for me automatically, so be it. If they want to make a rule that requires me to enter it manually, that's another story.

I am also not advising that pilots access VIPS remotely. I am simply stating that The Company's claim that remote access is a problem is a fabrication on their part. It was never a problem before, and when done from secure computers now it should not pose a problem -- except that they're having bandwidth issues.

My bottom line is that we should be pushing back against The Company and not against each other.






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Scheduling has turned "short delay" into a 3 hr standstill