Originally Posted by
gtechpilot
I can think of four scenarios where this can happen:
#1 - You want weekends off, July 4th, etc and you intentionally bid reserve.
#2 - The person junior has vacation and bids vacation low - during the summer, you would have to get four four-day trips whereas they would only have to get two four-day trips. Unfortunately, the only way to fix this one would be to get rid of vacation low!
#3 - You have training and it conflicts with trips you could be assigned but the junior pilot has no conflicts. We currently only get 4 hours of credit per day of training meaning yearly recurrent is only worth 16 hours when you bid. This one honestly should have been negotiated to include the CBT credit (~4 hours) or with the option for a higher virtual credit.
#4 - Either you have a carry over pairing that causes conflicts or they have a carry over pairing that gives just enough credit. I honestly think there should be a union controlled over-ride on this one.
So, contrary to the most adamant cheerleaders, it's NOT a 100% seniority system, is that correct? And it does, in fact, use a form of globalization in some cases?
Originally Posted by
ysslah
Some people towards the bottom getting a line is a by product. I have had a situation where I didn't get a line in my vacation month because of a bad luck, but people junior to me did. But I certainly wasn't bitter about it, because vacation low helps everyone across the board almost every case.
That's cool of your not bitter about it, but if you were senior to them, shouldn't you have held a line? Isn't the system 100% seniority based? Again, the most adamant cheerleaders on this board, AND others like to shout that the CRJ PBS is 100% seniority based. As well as the ERJ side doesn't care about seniority. But reading the two posts I quoted, I wonder if certain CRJ pilots (NOT you two) fully understand the CRJ PBS system as it currently operates.
Originally Posted by
supersix-4
Duty rigs. That would be a step in the right direction. I'd bet all those scheduled 4h:53min sits would instantly dissapear.
Myth, the regional provider DOESN'T get to set the schedules. So all regional management sees with a duty rig is a crew cost increase, NOT an incentive to make the crews utilization more efficient. Having crews sit around, able to fly the bank systems with 2-3-4+ hour sits is an efficiency for THEM, and that's how they like it.