Originally Posted by
DENpilot
Because they are junior to you! Your contract language just sucks too much that it allows this to happen. The more senior person should get more days off in this scenario or both should be on reserve and the trips dropped in open time for more senior line holders to trade for.
Quit trying to defend your awful PBS. It isn't flying over here...
Denpilot, yes it is "flying" over here. Try using it before you bash it. PBS is superior to line bidding IMHO (ASA PBS). If you don't fully understand it, it's not that hard btw, then you can get screwed. You need any random week off and a few days here and there, and your not really junior, then you usually get it. With line bidding, good luck, I hope they have your week off pre made and the other days off you want, and no one senior to you takes the 1 or 2 pre canned lines there were available before you. I would argue that most people at ASA love our PBS. "most" being the key word. Then again we can't double or triple drip and drop parings touching vacation and still gt paid for everything that drops... Then again, we (ASA) weren't loosing millions $$$ every quarter either.
And "awful" PBS? Name a carrier with a better one. Please.