So you advocate letting scheduling decide which base gets GS's? Scheduling supervisor: "The sick leave rate is to high and short call response times to long. Move all potential DTW GS's to ATL."

No, I'm saying get rid of "reserve only" coverage awards that go out of base. If the trip has to be covered out of base for a reserve to do it continue down the ladder in order.

Not now part of the PWA, I know. But it could be. Low priority, rare event but still a thorn.

That gives scheduling full control over which bases get GS's. I prefer the current system. If they move the trip to another base it has to be returned to the original base if a reserve can't cover it. Using your method they could also shop WS's and check every base system wide to see who had a WS in meeting the trip requirement and move it there. The company would leap all over this change if we offered it.

Isn’t that what OB WS/GS is for. Ok, no reserve fishing either then. If no coverage, the trip stays in base and goes to the next coverage step.

This comes in too little too late for this cycle..... but can one bid to avoid a certain pilot for CQ??

You're only half way there. Agree that CS doesn't get to move trips around and determine who gets premium trips and who doesn't. But they also have to stop covering trips with OOB reserves. This helps ALL pilots. OOB Reserves won't get stuck flying OOB trips, in base line holders get more chances for premium trips, what's not to like?

This is some varsity level avoiding. I haven't checked, but I'd assume if you can't avoid a captain in CQ the same way you can bidding your monthly schedule then it cannot be done short of a phone call to your training department.

Be nice if we could avoid certain DGS instructors as well.

You can, but you can't bid avoid him. Section 11 C. 10.

There is an instructor on my current fleet who I will neither fly with nor suffer through his instruction in the simulator ever again under any circumstance.

Thanks, I'd never looked at that section of the contract.

I've never had a bad LCP on OE but I've flown with a couple gems when I wasn't bought out. I wonder how many pilots are ignorant of 11.c.11 as I was until 1 minute ago.

B schedules are posted on deltanet

Yeah. Christmas comes early for the Bs!