March Bid packages?
02-06-2020 | 12:37 PM
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Da Hudge
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They don't do anything about it, though. All their actions are pre-month input.
02-06-2020 | 12:38 PM
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Sailing, having worked with the company in the scheduling arena I'm saying nope. They may SAY they care about post month credit, but they really don't (though they should!). Everything is subservient to "reducing credit" premonth, even when the end result is a fiasco.
I'll never forget when the 717Bs were critically understaffed a few years ago (completely inexcusable in an entry-level position). Due to TLV constraints the company had to keep the ALV lower than they would have liked. Given that, lots of 4-day trips in the bid package would have been a bad idea, as three four-days is not enough to get you in the LCW, and in that month, four 4-days would have been outside the LCW on the high end.
Nevertheless, the computer, mandated to "reduce credit" above all, chose to build an ATL bid package with 90% (!) 4 and 5 day trips. No one at crew resources hit the "manual override button", no one said, "hmmm...maybe the default solution won't work out this time and we need to do a little holistic proactive change to the solution."
As a result...and I counted them one by one...AFTER the PBS bid runs were complete, there were 163 4-day trips left in open time in that category. Endless rolling thunder GS and regular line GSWC ensued. In no universe ever would I believe anyone from the company who might have opined "yes, this is the optimal solution." All the company had to do was build a healthy number of shorter-than-four-day trips (no hard in the 717 world!) and this all would have been avoided.
I'm not convinced that they are thinking much differently now as then.
I'll never forget when the 717Bs were critically understaffed a few years ago (completely inexcusable in an entry-level position). Due to TLV constraints the company had to keep the ALV lower than they would have liked. Given that, lots of 4-day trips in the bid package would have been a bad idea, as three four-days is not enough to get you in the LCW, and in that month, four 4-days would have been outside the LCW on the high end.
Nevertheless, the computer, mandated to "reduce credit" above all, chose to build an ATL bid package with 90% (!) 4 and 5 day trips. No one at crew resources hit the "manual override button", no one said, "hmmm...maybe the default solution won't work out this time and we need to do a little holistic proactive change to the solution."
As a result...and I counted them one by one...AFTER the PBS bid runs were complete, there were 163 4-day trips left in open time in that category. Endless rolling thunder GS and regular line GSWC ensued. In no universe ever would I believe anyone from the company who might have opined "yes, this is the optimal solution." All the company had to do was build a healthy number of shorter-than-four-day trips (no hard in the 717 world!) and this all would have been avoided.
I'm not convinced that they are thinking much differently now as then.
02-06-2020 | 12:40 PM
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02-06-2020 | 03:33 PM
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Both the -400 and 330 will be almost exclusively international out of JFK. The -400 will do all the LHR soon. It can always change but that’s the plan for 2020 at the moment.
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02-06-2020 | 04:55 PM
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You can’t look in the past where the 767-400 or the A330 flew out of New York. All JFK-SFO is now on the 757 and JFK-LAX is on the 767, with very few exceptions. You have to look forward with Travelnet. Not perfect but it’s a useful tool.
Both the -400 and 330 will be almost exclusively international out of JFK. The -400 will do all the LHR soon. It can always change but that’s the plan for 2020 at the moment.
Both the -400 and 330 will be almost exclusively international out of JFK. The -400 will do all the LHR soon. It can always change but that’s the plan for 2020 at the moment.
02-06-2020 | 06:30 PM
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02-06-2020 | 06:53 PM
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02-07-2020 | 03:11 AM
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Also, you flown into SLC lately, they schedule 47 min turns with plane swaps.
02-07-2020 | 05:19 AM
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