Originally Posted by
gipple
If schedules get so bad due to all the subsets, trading restrictions, red eye etc...... It will be us begging for PBS. The company is always 10 steps ahead, you need to think that way too.
And a measly .7% increase in 401k is a shotgun blast to the face.
It is true that PBS (or some other name in which a computer deconflicts everyone's schedule before it is published) would revolutionize the QOL for SWA pilots. No more conflicts for vacation. With a company like SWA where everyone is essentially one category the computer would be able to build trips that would endlessly shift flying around to different bases on a seasonal basis and spread out the reserve flying. I have to believe that the headcount reduction alone would exceed 10% if not more.
