Originally Posted by disillusioned

Our vacation policies still suck. You have to submit how much vacation you want per day a month before the bid. So this month I used 7 vacation days at 2.5 per day (17.5 hours) But I have no idea how much PBS is going to require for my line. Since PBS required 87 hours this month, I now had to work 70 hours in 23 days. I missed my layer one trips by a couple hours and had my bid drop to layer 5 by 1 hour. Would I have preferred to take an extra hour of vacation and kept my higher layer trips? Yep but I don't have that option because I have no idea what the hell PBS is going to require with our lovely global solution.

We need either a set amount of hours in our bid, (even a defined range would be fine) or PBS needs to globalize in reverse seniority. It sucks to see all my trips awarded to less senior pilots because PBS required less hours when it got down to their bid. Vacation is pointless if you have to just work extra hours the rest of the month. Of course this all just boils down to proper staffing which will never happen.

And even if I could use less vacation hours by bidding reserve, I would never volunteer for the mental abuse that is our reserve pool.