CR,
Respectfully I disagree and urge you to speak to the director of rostering.
A CMP if setup properly can do lots of "nice" things at no cost. For example if you need a a day off to support your wife going into hospital for a medical test, the system could automatically move things around without manual intervention.
The CMP will change the way the rosters are built. The current system tries to have people on duty more days a month to get 84 hrs. It builds very inefficient and unstable rosters.
A CMP will look at optimising the average work day to x number of hours. People on the 777 will see little change, however people on the 747/Airbus should see their average day of work have more hours, therefore more days off. This would change from instead of doing a TPE turn or split for 5 hrs credit it changes to two 3 sectors days giving you 18 hrs credit.
It does not take a PhD to see that with a CMP all pilots more efficient days at work, and as a byproduct more days off. A better work/life balance.
A person on a regional fleet could have their month of flying done in 10 days. Today pilots on the regional fleets are normally rostered to 9 days off. With the first solution you can see how there will be scope to move days around as there are more non work days a month, the current solution pilots cannot swap flights as there are no days off.
So what happens now if someone wants to be with their wife while they go to hospital the only thing they can do is call sick.
The people who are most against a CMP are those on the 777 who think it's only their right to have a work life balance. This insults pilots on other fleets significantly, especially those who have people junior to them on the 777.
Most crew controllers will be replaced with this, it does not rely on lots of manual roster changes.
The people who are going to be worse off are the ones that do deals in the current system that lacks transparency. They won't be able to do deals to work days off or to get long layovers at particular destinations out of seniority.