Originally Posted by
RexBanner
I thought it was slightly later, Wiggy. I escaped down to Gatwick at the beginning of Jan 2019 (straight into the bear pit as it turned out a year later) most specifically to avoid the implementation of JSS plus a couple of other factors. I never bid under JSS at LHR before that as far as I can recall although I stand to be corrected.
JSS came in January 2019.
I read bda321's post as rhetorical but maybe I'm wrong!
The senior LH co-pilots now were never junior under jss. The work distribution under Bidline of old was that even the best rosters had an undesirable trip, and/or a weekend working on them. Even with the inhibitors now, the very senior don't have to do any of that, which then means those further down the list are picking up that slack.
The other issue is that the blindlines were much less efficient rosters meaning for those doing mainly the highly fatiguing or undesirable trips, would do less of them. JSS is an efficency maximiser which sees us squeezing all those horrible trips onto the rosters of the junior pilots with exacting efficiency.
25% of BA pilots joined post-JSS so have never even lived under Bidline and with recruitment going as it is that will increase pretty rapidly.
The only way i can see to really tackle this is reducing caps. However this needs more pilots which costs more and regardless they are hiring as fast as they can already anyway.