PBS Is terrible for the junior pilot. You can plan on working most weekends and every holiday flying the worst trips in the bid package.

I've seen junior pilots awarded back to back to back 4 day trips over Christmas all the way through January 3. FAR 117 allows this with 30 hour layovers.

If you're on reserve plan on a huge block of reserve days over the holidays.

Senior pilots will bid in when they can avoid the worst of PBS. The junior Captain's progression forward will be a long road.

We gave Delta the PBS system with hardly a whimper from ALPA......That's why our last TA had a little extra pay for CQ and vacation but no credit towards the ALV. The company will exploit this as much as possible.