Originally Posted by
paxhauler85
Clearly, you've never used PBS before. If you have any sort of pre-existing absence (vacay, training are loaded into your month before you log into the bidding website) you'd be better off bidding with darts and a dartboard.
Guess how many days off I got this summer when I had vacation? 16.
Guess how many days I got off this month with no vacation? 16. PBS takes vacation, and turns it into nothing more than 7 guaranteed days off. It does nothing to add to the amount of time you get off in a given month.
This is just one of the ways my QOL suffers due to PBS. My schedule goes to hell anytime I have recurrent as well. Any pre-existing absence makes it harder for the computer to build you a line (read: piece together a jigsaw puzzle of what you are legal for out of the remaining pairings when it recycles your seniority).
PBS is a serious concession. Don't ever let anyone tell you different. Anyone who does is stupid or senior. Guys like you and me are neither, and it doesn't benefit us in any way.
Yep.........think of a "working day" as a deck chair. PBS just allows management to maintain a fixed number of deck chairs and reshuffle them as they see fit to benefit themselves. With hard schedules and many of the currently common contractual scheduling provisions, pilots can actually decrease the number of deck chairs.
But......well, pilots being as clueless as they frequently are will sometimes run straight at the fire instead of distance themselves from it.
