CRJphlyer

You are absolutely out of your mind. Did none of you read the Chairman’s Letter? We had thousands of open ACE Reports and as I understand it, SK wanted to grow the already bloated Scheduling Committee even more… They replaced him. Now we’re almost down to real-time processing. Coincidence? No. I’ll be eligible to vote by the next election and if SK is running I’m a hard “NO” on that.

myrkridia

SK led the charge on tackling that queue. The decrease in processing also coincided with the company signaling they were starting to care more about pay issues and adding functionality for that via the pilot assist app. They replaced him due to a butting heads of certain reps wanting to explore getting rid of ACE for Unions app and him being unwaivering in his support of the app. My understanding is there had already been a bit of friction between him and specific parts of the MEC but that's the main reason I got from my rep.

CBreezy

If you've been here less than a year as you insinuate, you have no idea why the queue was even that long..

Also, you don't get to vote on MEC chairman regardless of your membership status.

Viper25

Speaking of scheduling, did anybody else notice the Facebook post showing an *automatic* ACE notification of PWA violation? That looks absolutely incredible. Is that feature turned on? And if this is thanks to SK, he’s got my vote down the road.

ancman

Anyone can reduce the backlog by giving away parts of the PWA and narrowing the scope of what constitutes a violation.

Growing the scheduling committee would have been the correct approach to reducing the backlog.

StoneQOLdCrazy

agree

Removing ARCOS batch sizes was a major factor in fewer ace reports.

FangsF15

SK did grow the scheduling committee to tackle the enormous workload of violations the ACE app uncovered/enabled grieving. Our illustrious MEC Chair DH absolutely lost his mind at how much $$$ was being spent on FPL on the scheduling committee, and wanted to chop the budget and volunteers.

As part of that, DH wanted to just be rid of the cue, and ordered SK to email over the raw ACE reports in their entirety, which often include some… “colorful” characterizations and language, in order to just dump them on the company without being processed/sanitized. SK refused, knowing pilots might face disciplinary measures from what/how they ranted. DH laughed, and said “I don’t care, send them over”. SK refused again, and was fired.

Now, all of a sudden, DH is the champion of the Scheduling committee, even ‘approving’ an all-hands month of FPL for all volunteers, taking credit for reducing the cue??? Irony at its finest.

SK is a pilot advocate among pilot advocates. He has done more for this pilot group than any other ALPA person in a decade, at least.

Facts.

CBreezy

That's what I heard as well. The MEC chairman is a terrible communicator. Even worse, many on the MEC support the mushroom feeding policy for the pilot group. They know if they say nothing or a little something uncontroversial, they can let the social media fervor die down and they do what they want anyways. Pilots get distracted by cashing their fat checks and DH and C44/C81 FO can give themselves free sick time to use and a raise. Unfortunately, many pilots don't care or believe those people should be rewarded for doing that job because it sounds too hard and they wouldn't do it. Also, unfortunately, it appears too many of them will do whatever it takes to keep their good deal.

JetPilotDaddy

I got an auto-note today about a RR I had months ago. Said I should have gotten at least X RRPY and my timecard shows within a minute of that. Not seeing the point of clogging up the que with that, unless there's more behind the scenes.

Vsop

I got an email about an automated ace report today too. 2 hours potentially for a RR.