Originally Posted by
dutchaviator
About the roster, since it is an older post, is there anything changed in the rostering system in the mean time?
First of all, I guess the management pilot to-be above here has issues with the legal right to strike.. No need to be a c*nt about these things and insult everyone.. See? Not fun right.
To answer your question. I don't work there myself anymore, but I still have half my friends working there and I worked there for many years too. If you need more in depth information just send me a PM and I can get your questions answered from people in the company.
AFAIK the rostering now works with CrewBids/InterBids so there is a way to give preferences. Pilot shortage as is the case everywhere leads to the requests not being super reliable probably. Strikes that happened were due to a multitude of factors (some legal issues as well with the company refusing to correctly pay its employees). They don't have a fixed roster system like ryanair 5 on 4/5 off, the most of the time you'd see a 4/5/6 on with 2/3/4 off on a 100% roster. Time to command is pretty short as I understand because of the huge outflow of experienced pilots to other companies (Sub 5 yrs). Let me know if you need more info