A possible solution?
02-10-2026 | 06:05 PM
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02-10-2026 | 06:09 PM
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Submitting a "call me for everything" slip and then getting mad when you get called for everything is peak pilot. Most of our problems get solved with using parameters.
That being said, I'd be all for eliminating the need to submit new slips every month. More pilots would put time and effort into submitting slips with parameters if:
1. They didn't have to every month
2. They were easier to "turn off/on"
That being said, I'd be all for eliminating the need to submit new slips every month. More pilots would put time and effort into submitting slips with parameters if:
1. They didn't have to every month
2. They were easier to "turn off/on"
Why we can’t have standing slips and edit them in MiCrew is beyond me.
02-10-2026 | 06:10 PM
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Submitting a "call me for everything" slip and then getting mad when you get called for everything is peak pilot. Most of our problems get solved with using parameters.
That being said, I'd be all for eliminating the need to submit new slips every month. More pilots would put time and effort into submitting slips with parameters if:
1. They didn't have to every month
2. They were easier to "turn off/on"
That being said, I'd be all for eliminating the need to submit new slips every month. More pilots would put time and effort into submitting slips with parameters if:
1. They didn't have to every month
2. They were easier to "turn off/on"
02-10-2026 | 06:46 PM
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Again, a company issue. If they wanted pilots using parameters they would have built an intuitive easy to use interface. Why do we have to read a full users manual for everything we do here? Want to bid for vacation - good luck finding the new form and figuring out how it works. Bidding for CQ? Good luck finding where to bid. Want to understand your pay statements? Spend an hour consolidating three different statements from three different systems. Want to get a next day WS? Dig through years of FB posts on strategies and then update your bid every morning or risk getting screwed. Reserved golden days? Training golden days? Good luck. Sick time usage? Dig through iCrew for a few hours and you might find it.
02-11-2026 | 06:45 AM
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Except he's right about all of it. I have never worked anywhere that was more difficult just to work at than this place. This whole Slip/AA/23.M.7/iCrew discussion going on here the last couple of months is demonstrative of how overly complicated this place is. It doesn't need to be this way.
02-11-2026 | 06:51 AM
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Except he's right about all of it. I have never worked anywhere that was more difficult just to work at than this place. This whole Slip/AA/23.M.7/iCrew discussion going on here the last couple of months is demonstrative of how overly complicated this place is. It doesn't need to be this way.
Icrew is garbage
every Pilot that doesn’t want age 67 to go through knows it
some pilots use it to their advantage. They use the lack of schedulers (analysts now) also to their advantage
I hope the negotiation crew asks what the company plans to do to modernize it. If no plans the next question should be “how much money on scheduling does the company want to continue to waste?” And go from there.
02-11-2026 | 06:53 AM
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Submitting a "call me for everything" slip and then getting mad when you get called for everything is peak pilot. Most of our problems get solved with using parameters.
That being said, I'd be all for eliminating the need to submit new slips every month. More pilots would put time and effort into submitting slips with parameters if:
1. They didn't have to every month
2. They were easier to "turn off/on"
That being said, I'd be all for eliminating the need to submit new slips every month. More pilots would put time and effort into submitting slips with parameters if:
1. They didn't have to every month
2. They were easier to "turn off/on"
02-11-2026 | 07:42 AM
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Here's my idea, anything covered manually inside the 48 hour manual timeline pays 2X in seniority order. If you get a call with a report inside 48 hours then you get 2X and you know the trip is yours. Call it a Gold slip and when a trip reaches or is dropped into open time within 48 hours to report they just start calling pilots 1 at a time. NO ARCOS. They would only have to call the senior person and everyone would know it's coming because it should appear as an AU trip in open time. Every trip in open time is essentially soaking as a gold trip. If scheduling can't get to it in time then AU.
02-11-2026 | 08:04 AM
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Here's my idea, anything covered manually inside the 48 hour manual timeline pays 2X in seniority order. If you get a call with a report inside 48 hours then you get 2X and you know the trip is yours. Call it a Gold slip and when a trip reaches or is dropped into open time within 48 hours to report they just start calling pilots 1 at a time. NO ARCOS. They would only have to call the senior person and everyone would know it's coming because it should appear as an AU trip in open time. Every trip in open time is essentially soaking as a gold trip. If scheduling can't get to it in time then AU.
Seeing the trip being offered is invaluable. I am a hard no on anything that gets rid of an app based system. Doesn't have to be ARCOS specifically.
02-11-2026 | 08:51 AM
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The company has shown they rather throw roughly $200m per season at the issue rather than staff the scheduling department and pilots adequately. So the next "solution" will have to come during section 6 and recapture that quid to the pilot group, however they end up going about it. Don't give that away now, even if the process is a mess.
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