Hi Trader,
You are absolutely right! The favouritism is the main problem.
Why some guys get always the day trips, scoring overtime easily on ATH, IST and some other keep hoping around the gulf and flying east? We've been discussing this since a long time on prune and nothing happened. There were official complains in the meetings with HOFO (R.H at the time) and the only change we saw was the closing of the rostering counter!
Electronic bidding system!
Take the power out of these rostering guys. Unprofessional, not qualified personnel dealing with a very serious issue.
It will not solve all the problems, but the improvement will be substantial. How much is gonna cost? It pays for itself after a short time, specially with GF and some guys scoring 100 hours O/T and some others flying 50 h.
The thing is, you cannot sleep with an electronic bidding system, nor will it give you gifts when you need something...
Concerning the 330 fleet, I know it sucks to fly to LHR 5 times a month...nevertheless it's wide body time.
The only question is who's going to go there and make the changes, without upsetting certain groups in the company? aHOFO? I don't think so. He has other concerns.
LNB