Originally Posted by TED74 (Post 3641058)

And when we say “the problem” we mean the company’s failure to staff categories with adequate reserves, right? If you imagine every category properly staffed with enough pilots to maintain adequate reserves for the flying we’re actually doing, there would have been hundreds more WBA and WBB positions on the last two AEs and a quarter of our airline would be sitting in more lucrative positions or at more lucrative and/or qol-enhancing seniority levels. We’d also have the ability to drop and swap on the 20th for the following month instead of hoping and praying negative reserve coverage math facilitates a swap 2 days prior to a rotation. Many more of our reserve pilots would have an extra X day. Fewer pilots would get unstacked. Fewer pilots would have to move X days. Fewer pilots would have to resort to suck leave use for schedule management.

The company is also exacerbating their own blanket GS problem with the world’s worst slip input interface. I’m not wasting an hour every month to enter precise slips because the company can’t figure out a way to make them cross bid months. And I’m not going to turn them off and on every time I have a cocktail because the company hasn’t put any effort into making that a more simple affair. I’m also not going to decline every offer I am not interested in because ARCOS won’t stay logged in, or because it often hangs up on login. And there’s no way I call scheduling unless absolutely necessary because the wait times are insane and unpredictable.

See the trend here? These are company problems, and I’m done trying to solve them.

Originally Posted by UGBSM (Post 3641103)

Originally Posted by waldo135 (Post 3641072)

So, let’s just make them worse…

Originally Posted by Meme In Command (Post 3641109)

From a purely tech standpoint, there has to come a moment when retrofitting this dinosaur to work on modern operating systems is no longer efficient

Originally Posted by waldo135 (Post 3641072)

So, let’s just make them worse…

Originally Posted by crewdawg (Post 3641119)

Why help when they chronically understaff (or over extend) the categories and build crap/fatiguing rotations? If they're going to continuously and flippantly utilize a portion of the contract clearly meant to be the exception, not the rule, why would guys not do the same in kind?

Originally Posted by crewdawg (Post 3641119)

Why help when they chronically understaff (or over extend) the categories and build crap/fatiguing rotations? If they're going to continuously and flippantly utilize a portion of the contract clearly meant to be the exception, not the rule, why would guys not do the same in kind?

Originally Posted by waldo135 (Post 3641154)

They may have created the environment, but we are making it worse.

Originally Posted by waldo135 (Post 3641015)

Just to play devil’s advocate for a second…With greatly expanded batch sizes, trips would get covered much faster, less 23M7, so less guys with blanket GS in trying to get paid for violations with no chance of actually flying a GS. Also, with larger batch sizes, less chance to no chance of batch size violations, so less people putting in blanket GS just trying to get paid for those violations. And, if there was NO batch size, there would almost never be a 3AM call since trips would be covered in 30 minutes or less vs the HOURS it takes now.
I’m not advocating for no batch size limit, but increasing it has definite upsides. For those that keep claiming “we shouldn’t fix the company’s problems”, let’s be honest and admit that we (through everyone putting in a blanket GS just to try to get paid for violations) is making the problem much worse that it should be.