Originally Posted by Buck Rogers (Post 3356665)

How did his 4 hours a month turn into "hours every day"? Even the most senior guys spend several hours a month massaging their schedule. It will always be that way no matter how much they fix staffing or improve the rotations.

Originally Posted by Drum (Post 3356666)

So glad you won't be voting on this next contract.

Originally Posted by Drum (Post 3356671)

retire already buck.

go enjoy your grandkids.

As to the other...........

I'm calling BS on his 4 hours a month. The guys I know who play that game spend their transcon time and layover tweaking the iCrew.

I don't believe him. Simple as that.

Originally Posted by Buck Rogers (Post 3356681)

Hey Drum.....BUCK YOU

Originally Posted by Drum (Post 3356659)

WOW

I think you totally miss what we are talking about.

This thread is about contract 2022.

The fact you spend most of your post doing precisely what you said in the first sentence you were not going to do says a lot.

I don't have hours every day to sit around and hawk iCrew looking at open time and the swap board. That's great you've made it a cottage industry in your life. Most of us don't.

Guess what, I can get weekedns off anytime I want via PBS, senior enough to do that all day long. Same for most holiday's (all or nothing type games). I've tried the swap.drop etc thing but whe you don't have enough folks that doesn't work. Besides most would rather hang for the GS. It's very convienient you are yet another one of us that seems to have trips others are willing to pick up on the swap board. Or you are staffed in your BES you can actually drop. Or maybe you bid reserve and fill it up, yes,we are all aware of strategies.

Our point here is that it should not take massive machinations, and a lot of luck, to be able to simply drop a trip when you need to without doing cheetah flips to get it done.

Our staffing is crap, the kompany runs rough shod over our PWA at will, and you come here to tell us we're ****ing lazy. Nice work hoss. Sure you enjoy the kindergarten level of verifying sick time too?

No, I want improvements for all of us across the board. That starts with staffing us properly. Keeping us flying OUR passengers, it then moves to making it a $$$$ as possible to RR us. and on and on as so many have pointed out here and in other threads. Our contract needs fixing. simple as that.

Originally Posted by Buck Rogers (Post 3356661)

I agree with your post (the majority of which I edited out).... but I am a little amused that you spent about 4 hours a month to massage you schedule(less than 10 minutes per day avg, as if that is a huge investment of time) to "BUILD" a fairly decent schedule as a junior capt. I would call that an excellent return on investment on time spent.:eek:

Originally Posted by Trip7 (Post 3356668)

PREACH. Some do nothing but complain, others improvise and do what's necessary to improve their schedule/QOL

Originally Posted by HTBH (Post 3356433)

...the reality is that the domestic schedules have become much worse, there is limited availability for people at the junior end of the seniority list to modify them, and that the problems that caused this came from management and not the pilot group.

Originally Posted by MJP27 (Post 3356699)

I most certainly do not. NOBODY on here is saying our rotations aren't much worse than they were 3-4 years ago. We definitely need improvements and hopefully figure out a way to give the RCC some teeth. However, I'm agreeing with a few on here saying that there are MANY ways to improve your *******ty schedule to a less *******ty schedule that is well above what is commensurate with your seniority.