My god but some crap is spread in here. My only suggestion to those of you who post in here are substance abuse is make sure its out of your system before you go to work ok...
Bid System.
The bid system is not ideal at all. But it is better than an allocated roster system. Capping and Limited sounds fine but what trips are capped and what are limited. And worse, anything that you cap wouldnt apply to overseas based crew anyway and the company can put them where they like.
If they cap short trips it could mean that ppl with children who both fly may not be able to keep flying. Or people engaging in external education may not be able to attend.
What is a good or bad or popular trip is very much up to the individual.
If crew want to have more choice then clearly some would lose choice. i actually dont get much out of the bid system by way of choice but i know a great deal of my colleagues do. I guess where is fly is less important to me than job security. Having said that i would be open to a survey of some kind but generally everyone wants the same thing. And that is normally what someone else has.
It's the way of the world. i think that those that want change should write to the FAAA as members and suggest questions for a survey and their reasons for wanting a survey.
The only way i can ever see the FAAA doing it is if they get a lot of written comment and feel there is a major groundswell of support for it.
Given that the Union represents among its own officials a reasonable crossection of the seniority spectrum i dont see them pushing theor own barrows but waiting for the members to initiate it