Another eswap limitation!!!!
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Another eswap limitation!!!!
The eswap system is already so limited it's almost impossible to swap flights, now it's got to be done 72hrs in advance!!!
May as well just take it away completely.
May as well just take it away completely.
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Heard from the IT person presenting the rollout of the new bidding system that the roster restrictions (referred to as "business rules" in the bouncy castle) are a 5MB file that is too large to cover in the one hour session.
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The swap system is to be used as a privilege. When flights are swapped and drivers assign themselves back to back flights and then report fatigue it is a problem for the company. Sometimes we dig our own grave.
PMASHA - what is your position in the bouncy castle?
Are you really saying that the 72 hrs are needed to confirm a swap? The current system was doing that calculation with the b/s company rules in about 20 secs.
I reckon with 4000 plus pilots that scenario must happen (if it does ever) about 0.00001 percent of the time. So typical- Punish all reaction by the muppets.
ESwap already has a 14 hour buffer on reporting for duty. Which is 2 hours more than the company can roster you to.
Are you really saying that the 72 hrs are needed to confirm a swap? The current system was doing that calculation with the b/s company rules in about 20 secs.
When flights are swapped and drivers assign themselves back to back flights and then report fatigue it is a problem for the company.
ESwap already has a 14 hour buffer on reporting for duty. Which is 2 hours more than the company can roster you to.
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PMASHA's statement has to be a new high watermark in arrogant hypocrisy.
To suggest that pilot's swaps are responsible for the rampant fatigue in EK is beyond ludicrous. Point one: swaps are - as detailed extensively in other discussions - subjected to mountains of first regulatory restrictions, and then secondly, a litany of unpublished, secret restrictions concocted by the company for their sole benefit (in some cases, I suspect, out of petty vindictiveness. Hello, AAR, TCAS). Those restrictions are of course, promptly discarded when doing do benefits the company.
So if a swap is legal under these ridiculous conditions, how, dear PMASHA, do you find the pilot responsible for swapping himself into something fatiguing? Or are you admitting that the rules themselves, the same ones used to CREATE the rosters, induce fatigue? Oops, didn't think of that in your zeal to blame the victims.
Point two: One of reasons given for the restrictions on strings of days off, is that the resulting compression of flying hours in the remaining days would be fatiguing. Yet in months where leave is taken, i.e. longer than average strings of days off, the company manages to compress a completely disproportionate number of hours into the remaining days worked. In many cases what would be a normal month's flying at a reasonable airline is still flown in a couple of weeks at Emirates. This makes their claims hypocritical lies, and the policy, simple theft. I submit there is no such thing as "leave" at EK, they should really change the terminology to what is is: simple Guaranteed Days Off (GDO).
PMASHA, I'm sorry, but you "dug your own grave yourself" on this one. If you're going to shill for the company you have to produce at least some shred of truth. It makes for a more powerful lie, remember?
To suggest that pilot's swaps are responsible for the rampant fatigue in EK is beyond ludicrous. Point one: swaps are - as detailed extensively in other discussions - subjected to mountains of first regulatory restrictions, and then secondly, a litany of unpublished, secret restrictions concocted by the company for their sole benefit (in some cases, I suspect, out of petty vindictiveness. Hello, AAR, TCAS). Those restrictions are of course, promptly discarded when doing do benefits the company.
So if a swap is legal under these ridiculous conditions, how, dear PMASHA, do you find the pilot responsible for swapping himself into something fatiguing? Or are you admitting that the rules themselves, the same ones used to CREATE the rosters, induce fatigue? Oops, didn't think of that in your zeal to blame the victims.
Point two: One of reasons given for the restrictions on strings of days off, is that the resulting compression of flying hours in the remaining days would be fatiguing. Yet in months where leave is taken, i.e. longer than average strings of days off, the company manages to compress a completely disproportionate number of hours into the remaining days worked. In many cases what would be a normal month's flying at a reasonable airline is still flown in a couple of weeks at Emirates. This makes their claims hypocritical lies, and the policy, simple theft. I submit there is no such thing as "leave" at EK, they should really change the terminology to what is is: simple Guaranteed Days Off (GDO).
PMASHA, I'm sorry, but you "dug your own grave yourself" on this one. If you're going to shill for the company you have to produce at least some shred of truth. It makes for a more powerful lie, remember?
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nolimitholdem you definitely don't seem to know what you are talking about. The roster system calculates the number of hours on pro rata basis and assigns duties. Check your facts or talk to the people who build rosters without making statements that you are not aware of. I understand this is a rumor forum, but let the rumors be graceful 
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PMASHA,
Are you honestly, and with a straight face, trying to deny that the company doesn't compress our rosters when we are assigned leave in a given month? Because I have been a meeting and heard senior tacitly admit that it does happen. Do you and I work in the same universe?
Are you honestly, and with a straight face, trying to deny that the company doesn't compress our rosters when we are assigned leave in a given month? Because I have been a meeting and heard senior tacitly admit that it does happen. Do you and I work in the same universe?
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