I've read through 20-04 and the PWA, but I think I've only confused myself a bit on the new ARCOS White Slip stuff. Big picture is I want to be able to see what White Slips come out and either work my long term schedule for the better or grab something short term 12-24 hours out.

Are all White Slips Proffers at this point? So if you put in a blanket WS until the end of Sept do you get Proffers on all of them or only 12-24 hours out or is anything beyond 24 hours yours without a Proffer? And if it's only 12-24 hours out then do you have to continually update your PS request to be 24 hours out? And how does the 0700 PCS run differ from the others.

All the examples they give in the ALPA stuff are designed for people who don't want to be called or want to auto-accept, so the union stuff doesn't really explain the process for what I'm trying to do.

Anybody got this figured out yet?

HTBH

 

No. Only same day or next day trips would be a proffer. The 0700 run is the last run for the following day that is automatically processed. Every open trip following that is done manually. So if you choose yes, you fly any trip available. If you choose no, your WS is skipped until manual processing.

And yes, unlike a GS, you can't put in a blanket WS for same day next day. You would have to update it after the 2200 run to "proffer' trips for the day following the next day.

 

Thanks! Great info. So on the same/next day WS stuff, I'll need to put in a PCS request after the 2200 run and check "no" for the 0700 PCS run option. And that only gets me the next day WS if I've got nothing on the schedule. I was hoping to have the ability to do last minute swaps to better trips that pop up, but it doesn't look like that is going to be an option. Far less usefulness than I thought the new process would provide. I guess it's really designed to help the schedulers more than anything else.

 

Kind of correct. It gives you access to trips for today and tomorrow. But yes, swaps are far more limited.

 

I think that's mostly it. But it does help us too, especially trips with less than three hours to report. I used to miss a lot of those because I never answer the phone, and when scheduling called with a short notice trip they would "move on" before I could respond. Now you always get at least the ten minute offer window to evaluate a rotation no matter when it signs in.

 

If there’s a trip going out and I’m getting a call 3 hours from report, it sure as hell isn’t going to be done for straight time by me.

 

If it's a good deal and you're trying to recover credit from one or more drops in the month, it's 100% worth it

 

Why would you ever take a last min W trip.
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Why do you care?

 

You sure it wasn't a swap with pot? If i can get a better overnight I'll swap into that in a heartbeat.