Yup. Someone on FB even posted the scheduling department numbers now vs. then. They have cut the scheduling department in half, while the pilot group grew by nearly 2.5x. Stop blaming your fellow pilots.

IA #1 - no issue

IA #2 - probably not in the norm, but certainly a possibility

IA #3 and beyond - deal making going on.

Can DALPA pull the tapes?

Perhaps the penalty for that should be every legal pilot in category should get paid…

Well I don't know. The email we got in Feb of 2025 from DALPA on this deal making I don't recall them telling us this. It has been posted that the CS are using their own phones to do this so they are not on recorded lines.

We are still dealing with the ramifications of the 9-8 vote on the 2023 M7 grievance settlement aka the Batch Size Giveaway. All our MEC had to do was open up the aperture a bit on batch sizes, which were admittedly too small: go from 5 to 8 or 5 to 10 or whatever the sweet spot is. Maybe get some QHCP relief in return or increase RCOS pay or whatever. But it was orderly, and seniority based, and you only got a call if you had a reasonable chance at a greenie, and when applicable, penalties for batch size violations.

That grievance settlement, and this MOU, just green light the company to wait until 8 hours or sooner and BAM! free-for-all. This is what "we" agreed to. The fabled Quick Slip, whenever THAT comes out, is the new ARCOS blast of 2019 pre-batch size limits.

A5S

If there are no tapes in those (alleged) cases, then proper coverage was still obviously skipped. That’s even tighter of a case.

I just checked. In my category, there are FOURTEEN individuals that have multiple IA's.....one of these individuals has 3 this month...and a GS

need to pull the tapes, and if there are multiple instances of dealmaking from this person, it's time to kick him/her out of the union.

I've had 1x GS and 2x IA this month. GS was a 1-day turn. IA#1 was a 5-day that sucked, overlapped a couple LC days, but gave 3.5 PB days. I waited 45 minutes on hold to get that one. IA#2 was a DH to position, redeye, then DH home. Waited only 3 minutes on hold for that one. The call came pretty late in the evening. No deals. Just the winning caller twice. I've been off all week and zero calls for GS or IA in my BES.

Plus a provision that says a pilot willfully violating the CBA to “make a deal” shall have their pay for the effected events reduced to minimum wage, related PB days removed (including debt in their bank if ready used) and triple that original rate value of the pairings in questions be paid to DALPA in a fund to be distributed equally to all at the end of the year.