Originally Posted by
shoelu
Well. I'm currently on vacation for the month of October and I'm working 7 days this month and crediting 92TFP with 19 consecutive days off.
I've worked under PBS and I was in the top 15% of the seniority list at the time. It isn't the worst thing in the world, however I will say that anyone that currently has at least 3 weeks of vacation at SWA will lose WAY more than they would ever gain from a PBS system at SWA. Sitting where I sit, I will vote no very loudly to any contract that includes Pref Bid.
So it seems the problem is with trips touching vacations and not PBS itself. At Delta we went to a vacation bank before PBS, so the PBS implementation did not affect vacation bidding. You can have PBS and trips touching vacation, they are two separate items.
In our experience, trips touching vacation could be a great deal for some pilots, a good deal for some pilots, and a bad deal for some pilots (especially on reserve). Vacation bank tends to level out the value of vacation across the pilot group. In the end, whether or not vacation bank is better or worse for the entire pilot group depends upon the value of the vacation day for the bank. If you made a vacation day worth 20 TFP (extreme example) you would get 140 TFP for 1 week's vacation. Same is true on the opposite end if you make a day worth 1 TFP.
Like I said, I don't care how you choose, just trying to learn.