^^^^^^^^^ AMEN!!!!
That was the worst trip in the system. Great job!

Tank you...tank you bery much...


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Heyas Carl,

Maybe that was true in the past, but don't forget, over half the status (voting) reps on MEC turned over March 1st.

It's a different group, in more ways than one. There are a LOT of junior guys on the MEC now, and I'm pretty sure they don't have any problems expressing themselves.


As for the bucket issue...we don't work on absolute seniority for practically anything...there are almost always restrictions to seniority (ALV/caps, in-base/out-of-base restrictions, freezes, open board/PCS runs, swap-board, etc). Furlough is the one thing that I can think of that IS absolute.

Let's take a look at just one...the PCS run times. More PCS runs = LESS ability to use seniority, because that means less time that a senior guy might have a chance to look at a trip and enter a bid.

A "real time" open board would be the ultimate "seniority nullifier", because it would be first come, first served. On the other hand, look at what fNWA had, which was ONE open time cycle a day...at midnight.

BTW, efforts to change that at NWA were met with that EXACT argument..."it wouldn't allow senior guys to look over the flying"

So the question isn't "should we let seniority rule?", because we've already decided, as a pilot group, that we don't, at least not absolutely. The question should be "how much balance do we want?"

In the case of PCS runs, we decided that more convenience to tweak schedules was more important that seniority. I'm sure the bucket issue will be decided the same way.

Nu

FWIW, a single AXXX rotation has not survived a single PSC run all month and they have all been PW awards by pretty senior B's

Does anyone know why it takes so long to post the B schedules? The As are posted fairly quickly... then we wait for days for B. The only difference I can see between them for speed of computer run is the "avoid employee # xxxxxx", which is just one more line of avoid code for the computer to zip through, along with all the other avoids it's already doing.

So... why is it always days later for the Bs?

VERY True. I've not received a GS in the 2+ years on the ER in LAX. I've been in and out of RES but never even close. I thought I watched the Open Board a lot....There are sharks way more into it than me.

Baja.

I was told that ALPA negotiated it that way as a subtle f you to the junior guys.

But seriously, I'm not seeing anything out yet. No A's or B's. They must be realizing that they don't have enough pilots to cover the summer schedule. Should have hired a few months ago.

Most, if not all A's are out via backdoor....strange they don't have the "June" Link up as of yet.

Baja.

Oh, man.... that's the truth!

The current 80 threshold for bucket 1 is ridiculous. I had 3 days carryout from a 4 day trip, flew 2/3 days last week, had recurrent the last 2 days, and am still in bucket 1 and first up for flying.

So, of course now im flying 2/3 days on call this round as well. I'll finally break into bucket 2 with this coming trip.