Originally Posted by
golfandfly
Of course, this system "bids around" your vacation and training. This leads to optimization, and makes us work more. PBS generally uses a monthly cap, which is another thing I am not in favor of. I like being able to work slow months in the summer (kids out of school) and pick it up more in the winter. .
Only if the MEC/NC agreed to a crappy system, with crappy paramaters. Read my previous posts, not ALL PBS is created equal, nor negotiated the SAME. Not all systems build trips right up to vacation, not all systems make a pilot meet a credit window, as you allude to above. Some systems give the vacation credit, PLUS a "virtual credit" in a vacation month so pilot does minimal, if any flying during a vacation month.
CAL PBS = crappy. Uses globalization and unstacking, because the pilots let it when it was negotiated. They bent over, grabbed their ankles, an let the company inflict maximum destruction on their cornholes when they (CAL MEC) agreed to that system with those (lack of) work rules. And they weren't even in BK.
ASA PBS = one of the best out there. Max vacation conflict, preferences honored more than ANY PBS out there. Doesn't use globalization to run the sort/solution.
Doesn't matter, just vote NO.