Originally Posted by
wanttofly
You serious..? I think you're confusing a stagnant seniority list and reductions in flying with PBS issues. If you're a middle of the pack reserve pilot, especially at DTW then the reason that you don't have a line is...you're junior and no one is leaving. If you were in ATL...you would be on reserve. If you were at IAD...you would be on reserve. Are you seriously saying that you DON'T like the one part of the system that actually benefits you? So one more time, just to be clear, if you are a reserve pilot and someone junior to you is awarded a line, it was not at your expense. It's simply not possible. They were awarded a line after your schedule was created. They were awarded a line because A) they had preassigned credits that allowed them to reach their min credit with fewer trips; B) you did not select "award all pairings before reserve" or C) the pre assigned credits which you selected could not create a full schedule with the trips that were left over at your seniority. Trust me, I know it sucks but remember, what goes around, comes around. A few times a year it will be your turn to benefit from the system. Maybe someday we'll see some ovement on this side of the company and it won't be an issue.
No this goes back well into 2011, before the flying was reduced for 2012. And it happens in ATL. It just goes relatively unnoticed to most pilots because you have to be on the cusp each month to be affected by it. The problem is, we are all the same pilots month to month dealing with it because there is no movement here.
one month last year, I had vacation and people below me got a line because "the week I had vacation conflicted with the remaining open time pairings, causing me to be bumped down to reserve"
more recently, appx 15 people junior to me received lines because my carry over trip conflicted with "all remaining pairing solutions" thus having the junior line holders to me "winning the lottery." And yes, I selected all remaining pairings, had multiple bid sheets, and had more pre-assigned credits in BOTH cases than the pilots below me.
On a jag, Reserve coverage with PBS has been way too high and lurked in the 20% range until the last 2 months. Reserve rules are almost non existent with the loopholes in the contract. Now this month there are no long call reserve lines that have weekends off. If you want one weekend off, you have to work the other weekends. Unreal.