You're right Joe....which is why the Flightline system should be dumped if PBS is agreed upon for the next contract. Your system directly violates seniority....but because you're supposedly a senior lifer, you would have no clue about that.


From the XJT scheduling committee PBS report:

Additional seniority issues exist within the Flightline system. As the program approaches the junior lineholders, there are fewer trips to work with. At times, because of a vacation, training event, or other leave, it will be impossible to combine those trips and “pre-assigned credits” into a legal line, so that bidder will be forced into reserve. Conversely, a bidder with the same event at a different time during the month may be awarded a line, even though numerous senior bidders were forced to reserve. This creates the concept of “lucky lineholders/unlucky reserves”, which directly violates seniority.


Would somebody from the CRJ side like to confirm this?

There is much more to this report...and if the CRJ side wants to be transparent with their pilot group, they would share this research that the ERJ side has done. It would explain a lot of the reasons the ERJ pilots feel the way they do about the current PBS system in use.