There are indeed issues with crew planning, as there are with every other dept.in the airline, at any airline, rosters are based on which fleet goes where, then that plan is changed by commercial halfway through the crew planning/roster building stage, then of course they have to start all over again dont they??
Bidding system....1) It doesnt fix everything....read the EK posts here
2) Our head of crew planning is/was a proponent of the
bidding system, budgeting was not...
Lay blame where blame is due, but make sure you have the whole picture...