What really gets me is the claim that this is being done as a safety measure. What a load of crap. If they really cared about safety wrt fatigue, many of our flights and layovers would not be happening at all. And also, underlining ''Manual Insertions'' in an attempt to mislead those not knowing..... into believing that this is something the company tries to avoid. NOT !
I just don't buy any of this propaganda. Who was complaining about the disparity in days off anyhow??? Everyone has always complained that the bidding system does not work and if the company would only stop manually inserting trips and altering schedules, then it probably would work !
I suspect this is just one more method to increase our workload. I have no doubt that they ran scenarios and reran past months to see if they could scrape out some more work from us and obviously it worked.
The only thing the company sees is the string of days off in a row that we sometimes can achieve. They view this as wrong but they do not look at the preceding months of horrendous schedules and have no concept of how difficult this can be. Over time multiple time zones, and round the clock flying sucks the life out of anyone. The odd string of days off had in the past alleviated these effects, but now that is gone.
Will they stop at nothing now?