MancRy
We do have a request day off system, except it's an absolute nightmare to get your RDO's. You can only book one on a day that is available for booking as annual leave. You have to email a lady in LTN who will then put it on your roster, but that is where the system falls down. If the nice lady in LTN is on leave, off sick or something, then your RDO request will have to wait - meanwhile someone else could book the day off that you need as an annual leave day via AIMS.
And trip bidding, well don't hold your breathe - that would only lead to an improvement in quality of life, which will never happen as the management seem to be hell bent on making our lives as difficult as possible at the moment.
Random rostering in easyJet will be completely cocked up. Crewings favourite response of "It's legal" will be used all the time and crew will run out of hours way before the year is up.
Summer 2006 was a complete and utter nightmare where the management decided to reduce the headcount per aircraft, this lead to thousands (and I do mean thousands) of flights having to be cancelled or sub-chartered. Finnair (I think it was them) spent the whole of the summer at LGW operating the ATH and FAO flights on a 757 which must have cost easyJet an absolute fortune.
The company want to reduce costs and claim that they have a flat management structure - why the hell now do we have ACCM, CCM and RCCM - then LTN H89 management, the previous structure was OPM, BCCM then H89 management. So our flat management structure now has a new level of RCCM - at least 2 or 3 people who are being paid to overlook all the bases, that must be an unnecessary £100k per year being paid out, money that would be better off spent on recruiting around 4 or 5 more crewing officers.
I have absolutely no confidence in the management of easyJet anymore. It is only purely my respect for my flying colleagues and pax that is making me stay here now
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