Yeah, there aren't many reasons to come to PSA right now. So PSA's pilot recruiters are touting PSA's schedule flexibility as a reason to come here. But what the recruiters are not telling people is that the Schedule Adjustment Period (a.k.a. "SAP") is only available for 24 hours from 5pm on the 16th of the month 'till 5pm on the 17th of the month and that it's only available to ROUND ONE LINE HOLDERS. When you're on reserve or if you only have enough seniority to hold a round two line, you can't "SAP" your schedule. They also won't tell you what I'm about to tell you: It often takes from 3 to 5 hours for their computer to approve or deny each and every one of my trade requests. If you have 24 hours to re-arrange your schedule and it takes 3 - 5 hours to find out if your trade worked,..... well you can't do much re-arranging of your schedule, especially if you happen to be flying those days.

Additionally, the company has been playing games with the reserve grid, (which is the subject of the "critical pay" grievance that's been on-going for a year), and the company won't allow pilots to trade their trips with open time trips because nearly every day is determined to be at or below the minimum required number of reserves for that day.

So don't be fooled by the recruiters attempt to use "scheduling flexibility" as a reason to come here. You've been warned.