Less than 50% of pilots put in a parallel bid!
Good job. It's to show them our displeasure with the new system and them not listening at all.
In a typical manner EK now builds up a threat: If you do not bid in parallel, the system can't be fine tuned and this will result in "poorer rosters than might otherwise be the case".
It can't be worse for us, so i guess they're still right, but it might be worse for them ......
(But the reaction is typical: You don't act the way we want, you get punished. Just as the hilarious and completely puerile statement concerning SEP's: You fed back that it is overloaded, so we took out the OM-E test and shoved it up yours in your free time! With the spin that they seemingly "reacted" to our wishes, only to punish us for raising an issue they effectively did not respond to.)
We want less restrictions, more bids, no privileges for special groups. We know this is possible with the same efficiency, that the unsatisfactory set up is basically only vindictive.