After all this is call increased productivity. Once the CRS system has completed it's first round too many flights are uncovered every months. Since the optimizer of CRS works from the bottom bid to the top bid it becomes the 3-4 and bottom bids that get their roisters overly optimized. Then it makes no more sense for the lower bid groups compared to the 2 top bids. So the roistering team
has to equalize the results of the automatic optimization by manually taking flights from the automatically optimized groups and manually insert those flights into the top groups since the optimizer did not reach the top bids. Since we are 1900 pilots minus trainers about 200 ( i guess i really don't know ) then this becomes a big task to insert manually all these flights every months. By changing the rules of CRS there will be more flights assigned in the top bids and then less flights ending not being initially assigned by CRS on the first round. The uncovered flights at the end of the first round of CRS will still be automatically optimized to a lesser disparity between top and bottom bids. This is just a sign of what is about to come in the future. More planes coming not enough people to fly them. Cut the vacation credits=productivity. Still not enough people=cut actual vacations ( 30 days is contractual )=productivity. Still not enough people then introduce factoring=productivity. Still not enough people change CRS rules to fit more flights throughout the groups=productivity. Still not enough people then suspend the bidding system and use optimizer only to crew the aircrafts=productivity.
The idea is they have many airplanes coming and they will do what they do to have the airplanes flying. The trend is definitely going towards more work for less money=productivity. This is just the beginning. Since they cannot have the number of pilots to fly the future fleet at the productivity level that we are today and they cannot change that fact... The only solution is to increase productivity. Can't wait for the 1000+ a years. The hotel in the sky of long haul... Keep discovering
