Oh by the way, 5 days left to vote.

Someone's website you might want to visit and consider if you're ATL based:
The Infamous DN

otherwise we might all be making this commercial:
Oh I forgot to vote for scope

The above process will get you the info, but if might take you an hour to figure it out because you have to look at every single persons schedule individually. It would be alot easier if they would just put a time next to the person that shows when they are available for an assignment. They could also place an "available block time" figure there that would let you know how close they are to 30/7 issues. The last place I worked had a list that showed the name, seniority #, days available, time available, and last rotation information on one line for each person on the list. You could see in 10 seconds what it takes 30 minutes to figure out on e-crew. We also had a reserve availability list that showed every day for the entire month which was very nice.

I'm with you on that, its a lot of work to figure out where you possibly really may definately stand, maybe.

...and keep in mind we're complaining only about an interface that may or may not give transparency about exactly how it is you're getting screwed, and by whom. Not getting screwed in the first place must be the aim of the next systm. Right now, the core issue is that the system is designed to reduce cost, and in the process deny you any use of your seniority. The score truly is "raw"...

I have also seen the schedules assign short call very early in the day, ie shortly after 0800 so that they can get past the guys with five and six days of availability so they can assign the four days to guys with four days of availability. I had it happen to me earlier this week.
Fact is, it is totally legal and up to their discretion. I was number three and I got the second four day. The guy above me had SC assigned, and the trip was assigned prior to 11 am the day prior. Of course when I was given the trip I assumed the guy above me got SC, sure as the day is long at 1500 he did.....

Another little fact. "Most pilot are junior that bid/are awarded SC. With that in mind they are subject to unstacking. What that means is the computer will look for the best month to month transition. I have seen this happen to me a few times.
I bid for weekends off, but a day off near the end of the previous month that I could not move, well guess what happened? I got ustacked on all of my Prefer off Requests and was assigned Reserve Days that worked for the computer. I had 15 guys below me get weekends off, but for the computer to assign it to me, they would have had to given me a three day reserve period. (legal but not optimal) Because I fall in the bottom 60%(50%) of the catagory, I was unstacked to make the schedule "flow" better.

I suggested that we group all reserve award holders in to a month to month seniority group and unstack their PBS requests based on 60%(50%) of that group, not the group as a whole. If would allow more requests of the senior guys to be honored, which is the way it should be.

SEN NAME LEGAL STAT TYP DY ACTL SCHD CREDIT
03295 MUR/B R--- R5 2
03282 HOE/R R--- R2 4 427 415 427
03718 MCI/M R--- R4 5
02937 BRA/A R--- RR 13 2224 2224

This is a snapshot of today's MEM CA DC-9 reserve list I just copied off my home computer. I got to it in one mouse click from a third-party program many of us here use (although I did edit it to remove names and employee numbers). It tells you:

Legal: what time your crew rest ends;
Stat: your status (R = Reserve; it could be different if training took your trip, for example);
TYP: your RAP (Reserve Availability Period) R5 = 1000 thru 0100. We know exactly when we can fly every day;
DY: your day (bucket)
ACTL/SCHD/CREDIT: Your monthly actual/scheduled/total credit times.

We can pull this info up for every base/airplane/seat for any day of the month in a few seconds. There is not a lot of mystery on the north side about where you stand on reserve. There's lots of good things about this merger, but DAL's computer systems is not one of them.

Wow. Sounds to me like the Delta reserve system is about as bad as it can get. I can't wait.

It is not bad, but it needs improving. A lot

If you know the rules and know how to work the system, reserve can be pleasurable. I enjoy sitting at home playing the game. I get nailed a few times over the course of a year, but I can see it coming. My recommendation is to live in base if you can while bidding reserve. Commuting to this system sucks. (I might opt to do it too!) :eek:

+1

I bid down to reserve in the summer and got everything I wanted and hardly had to work. After Sept and Oct I'm done bidding down. Weekends here I come-ish.

But I looked back at my October schedule and they had me every day but one for 70.2 hours with 5 SCs, with two of those back to back. I would not want to commute to that schedule but living in base it was really easy. If I was to commute again I'd prefer something like the ER with a predictable afternoon departures but I guess that's changed with domestic flying in the system so I don't know if there is a good airplane to commute to reserve on.