Really? I bid about halfway up in JFK, and I've only got 11 days off. Same with most of the people on the same "page" as me on the PBS awards. Even going up two pages, you see guys with a whopping 13 days off when they were getting 16-18. Basically, we're paying the price for the company having to do all the training and shifting people around. I'm pretty sure the PBS guys did their best. We simply just don't have enough pilots where they need to be is what it looks like. I love how PBS dropped a one day trip that consists of a CLT turn in on me.....with a 6:30 am show. Gee, thanks. I don't commute or anything. It's followed by a 4 day trip.

I forsee the suck continuing for the near future as guys are pulled off the line to be trained in their new positions. December is gonna suck just as much, Jan and Feb might be a little better, and from March on, we're all gonna be hosed unless they can fire guys through the training pipeline. Look at a bunch of the guys that bid back to MEM 200 CA, and they won't even be flying the line. A lot are check airmen that were in the sim rather than commuting to DTW or JFK. I doubt they'll give that up to go sit reserve. Nice to see post merger 9E still has the same issues it's always had.