Originally Posted by
rickair7777
I am starting to wonder if PBS is being intentionally rigged to reward low/mid seniority at the expense of seniors.
FOs: Extends the honeymoon phase for a few years with artificially high QOL. About the time you get senior enough to upgrade, your FO seniority isn't really improving your life so might as well upgrade.
CAs: They need them to stick around for a while, but much after ten years they'd rather you move on and make way for upgrades to keep the new-hires (and not-yet-hires) happy.
Direct opposite for me. After I finally got off reserve (3.5 years) all I could hold on my line was 4 day pairings because I was so junior(80%). So I started being selective with my 4 day pairings because I would either be working 19 hour 4 days or 24 hour 4 days. But as my seniority has gained, we have lost our pairing diversity. Also, the company has realized they can just put the reserve level high enough to cover IROPS and then raise the minimum reserve level so nobody can drop anything. Before you could drop a turn that had a long sit or a day or two off your awarded trip if it came back to base. I haven't even considered upgrading because I was about to quit sitting reserve in base. Tripling my current pay wouldn't be worth signing up for reserve. Commuting to reserve would be the nail in the coffin for my career at SW.
Originally Posted by
IFLYPLANEZBRO
I think it's more like people know when they are junior that they won't get what they ask for and therefore aren't as restrictive in their bids. As they get more senior they get more and more selective/ restrictive which ends up ruining their bids allowing good trips to go junior.
I think it is more like Electra said. People are used to bidding and getting what they could hold before. Now that the required hours is creeping up the seniority list, it is making more and more people see the "replaced/not awarded" line in their reason report. They are not being restrictive per say, but they are not bidding like they will need 85+ hours for their bid to complete. Or they are not realizing it will take more days to get those hours with our lost efficiency.