Everybody always says this, but I disagree. It doesn't have to. Vacation could work just like we have it now. It's all in the programming.

I AM NOT A PROPONENT OF BRINGING PBS TO FEDEX

you have 7 days of vacation, but want to use 80 hours of your bank, program it in. Want to slide, expand, etc., it can be programmed to do that to. It can be programmed to do whatever the programmer wants it to do. Or you can program it to not even look at your vacation days during the build and then after you are awarded your schedule, you can vacation adjust just like you can now. There are a myriad of ways to have PBS and keep our vacation flexibility just as it is.

Now, whether the company would give us that kind of control... that's a different story altogether. That's the part I don't trust and why I wouldn't want PBS here. Given complete control of the programming parameters to ALPA and the line pilots, I think it would actually be a benefit, but that would never happen, so neither should PBS.