Regarding the bold, exactly which parameter do I put into a slip to ensure I don't get woken up for a trip that isn't mine to ack? Besides AA.

Anyway, QS are effectively a trial-run of what some folks here are describing (elimination of the "accept" phase) for other slips. It will be interesting to see how behavior pans out.

The difference between what I'm suggesting and QS is QS has 1 shared 12 min window for everyone, and what I'm suggesting is everyone has 1 individual 12 min window to agree to fly a trip. The key difference being a QS wakes up the whole batch, and this system would only wake you up if the trip was yours. If the company has time to wait for the GS, they pay 200%. If they do not, they pay 300% to run QS. Move OOBWS to below GS in the coverage ladder. Problems solved.

Ummm…. What you are describing is batch size of 1, aka universal auto accept.

How did we end up back here again?

Call it what you want. What's wrong with the idea?

Well, just scroll this thread for plenty of opinions on it. Other than the OOBWS part, your "idea" is the status quo, except everyone's auto-accept box is automatically checked.

The only change you suggest that the company would be interested in is moving OOBWS below GS.

They have no interest in every pilot’s slip defaulting to auto-accept on (which is essentially what that would do). It would slow coverage further.

(Edit: Verdell beat me to it.)

This is much more of a problem for the company than it is for us. It's costing them tens of millions. This "problem" seems to be a nice opportunity for us. Let's not just give it away in some half-baked LOA. If they want to change the coverage ladder to make the coverage process quicker for everyone and cheaper for them, they can negotiate for it in a couple months - and they can give the pilot group something for it. Even better, I think this "problem" incentivizes them to not drag their feet in section 6 and get a new contract signed ASAP.

This is completely illogical. Currently to get a trip covered they have to give folks time to both accept it and then acknowledge it. This would require them to only give time for folks to acknowledge it. There is no universe that just removing a time-consuming step would increase the time to get a trip covered. That would benefit the company. Combined with the OOBWS move which would get rid of 95% of the gunk in the system, trips would get covered quite quickly by GS.

I've read this thread and don't recall anyone saying what is wrong with this setup (or anyone bringing up this combo except me).

You appear to not understand how the process works.

When scheduling runs WS/OOBWS/GS coverage, it begins with a 12-minute ARCOS offer window. During that time, everyone with auto-accept on automatically accepts the trip, and those without auto-accept on can manually accept. This initial 12-minute window has never been an issue. This is what you’re proposing to eliminate.

The true issue (for the company) is that after that step, each pilot who has accepted the trip now receives an individual 12-minute award window. If 50 pilots have auto-accept on, then the second step takes 10 hours. If 100 pilots have auto-accept on, it takes 20 hours.

In a category with 100 auto-accepts, the step you’re proposing to eliminate currently occupies 1% of the time required for coverage (12 minutes out of 1,212 minutes). The other 99% of coverage time (1,200 minutes) is spent on the second step, the award window phase. Under your proposal, that step would actually take more time, as now every pilot has auto-accept on rather than only some.

Ah, that makes sense. I've always used auto accept and didn't realize it was a shared 12 minute window to cut down on the number of people needing to acknowledge. That makes more sense now, thanks.