Originally Posted by
rickair7777
2) PBS: This is a computer program. It has a lot of options, and you tell it what you want (days off, credit, layovers, etc). It then will attempt to build you a custom line using trips that company has already built...the senior guys get dibs on the best trips, but PBS will usually give you at least some of what you want even if you are junior. It is NOT going to give a junior guy a 30 hour layover in SAN, but it will give you your wife's b-day off. Some folks complain about PBS since it gives the senior guys EVERYTHING they want, but it has always given me the days off I need, and I care a lot more about that then where I layover when I'm working. All airlines will be using this system in the near future anyway.
Man my score for pbs is always like -200000! it does usually give me the specific days off i want, but other than that its a crap shoot. how long did it take for you to start to get a schedule you could live with (not necassarily longevity, but learing how to really use the system). a bud of mine at skywest is just now starting to like it and he has been there almost 2 years.