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03-20-2026 | 01:40 PM

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Valar Morghulis

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Originally Posted by CBreezy

This. You know the worst part of PCS? It's that it's a program and has been signed off by the union. So if the program does something wrong, you can't call and argue to make it right.

Automated PCS is actually quite accurate, and is almost never wrong. Manual trip, yea, not so much.

03-20-2026 | 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Valar Morghulis

Automated PCS is actually quite accurate, and is almost never wrong. Manual trip, yea, not so much.

This is why I’d like to go back to one day prior for manual.

03-20-2026 | 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Valar Morghulis

Automated PCS is actually quite accurate, and is almost never wrong. Manual trip, yea, not so much.

AI wouldn't really help PCS, it already works quite well. It would probably do pretty well with manual assignment. What I would be worried about is having it break up and rebuild trips, that's where it could quickly get ugly.

03-20-2026 | 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by immolated

Yeah, I've seen them break up a 4 or 5 day trip in open time to cover it with 4 reserve pilots, with deadhead-only days (the res pilots doing 3 days at a time, DH-operate-DH). Sometimes they breakup a trip just to have a res pilot fly the first leg with the returning pilot deadheading in the back (on a GS or other combination). Huge waste when the whole thing could've just gone to a greenslip and you're now out of reserves. Completely short sighted.

I’ve seen it even worse this week. Probably took 130+ hours of FO time alone to cover 1 trip. What a mess. Never deiced, mechanical’d, or pushed late.

03-20-2026 | 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Planetrain

I’ve seen it even worse this week. Probably took 130+ hours of FO time alone to cover 1 trip. What a mess. Never deiced, mechanical’d, or pushed late.

Maybe, just maybe one of the interns could use some AI magic and look at how much credit is created by running too lean. Claude vs the Optimizer. My money is on Claude.