Patience my friends,
the end of the rostering maffia is near, and they know it!
What will happen now is that our rosters will become gradually worse, in an attempt from this maffia to have us think that the Jeppesen system is bad! They will try to get us as far where we will be saying "see, those rostering guys where not that bad after all"
This is because untill November we are in a transition period, where rostering dept still can do many manual inputs in the rosters as designed by the new system. But after NOV its definitely GAME OVER...
After that our rosters will be made by software, optimalising efficiency for the company by increasing crew-utilisation. In return we will be guaranteed around 80hrs flying time/month for everybody(no more excesses in both ways), flight requests, days off requests etc...
There are even plans for lifestyle rostering which would make comuting more possible!
It will not be perfect, and you wont get what you want every month, but for sure it will be a HUGE LEAP FORWARD from the current system/flaws/bribes/...
Patience....
