bids
Ottergirl then surely you would all benfit by a better and DIFFERENT bid system being introduced in conjunction with the attendance allowances, by the way NOT based on seniority. There are some about and used by other airlines and there was the rotating bid system used by the now defunct MID FLEET. As the companys` proposal is for mixed flying maybe it is time to have another look at that.
The union (which ever is remaining after this fiasco) should have put the purchase and/or development of a fair bid system as a condtion of agreeing to the attendance allowance.
What you will have and the same applies for WW is that crew will go sick for the least `desireable` trips. Again there will have to be something built in to prevent this.
My suggestion is that you have some sort of points system or CAP incorporated into the system which prevents people going sick based on actual duty hours flown. If people go sick they will not earn points and therefore at the next point of rostering/bidding will be rostered or given a CAP to achieve (individual) and have to base their bids on that.
Food for thought?
Dave excellent post and surely there is a way forward