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Old 07-16-2012 | 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by atlmsl
No way. You guys don't like PBS? I haven't noticed. Perhaps you should talk about it more.

I'm not defending PBS. I personally don't care if we have it going forward or not. All I'm saying is that I think it's ridiculous to be upset about what happens to pilots junior to you. With our PBS there are numerous ways to bid. If the way you bid combined with conflicts and the pairings the company builds cannot award you a line then it's pretty simple: you're not getting a line. Every pilot's situation is different and PBS goes one pilot at a time. Putting a junior pilot on reserve instead of awarding a line still will not get you a line. Your schedule was completed before the system moved on. I know misery loves company but quit worrying about everyone else. The argument should be "there are pairings available and I wasn't able to hold them and going forward there should be a way for me to hold a line in this scenario" versus "the guy behind me got a line and I didn't!!!"
I agree. Possibly in the future, if a pilot can't complete his line with the available parings, it should award the ones it can, then assign reserve days where the pilots prefs are to complete his line. That way it doesn't just give him reserve the whole month.