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...
Jesus, If we had line bidding the last 10 percent of pilots would be on reserve. PBS takes all the trips that would normaly be dropped into opentime because of vacation or training. This gives several guys that would normaly be on reserve a schedule. If your schedule as a " line holder " would allow u to swap or pick up a trip in PBS opentime , u would already have it with PBS. The goal of any PBS system is to build as many schedules as possible and ideally have zero opentime, there by creating the least amount of reserve schedules as possible... It's not rocket science. So the guys who would be in the situation of having a " junior" pilot get a schedule because of vacation or training would have their ass on reserve any way. Find something else to complain about. ASA PBS WILL NOT AWARD A SCHEDULE TO SOMEONE JUNIOR TO U IF IT CAN COMPLETE A LEGAL SCHEDULE THAT GETS U TO THE MINIMUM CREDIT THRESHOLD!