Originally Posted by Left Handed

Everything paid peanuts said is technically true. However think about this. The 1 to 15% tier get mostly what they want. The 15 to 40% tier get a some of what they want, and the last 40% to the bottom tier don't get what they want. Peanuts has it right in that if you give it a parameter and it can't fill it, it ignores it. Transition conflict would be eliminated, and vacation dropping touching trips would go away. The company would never allow the union to run PBS. However the biggest problem with PBS is how we build pairings. We have so many 18 hour four day pairings. If you told PBS "I want max pay" it would build you 4 four day trips and a single day trip of four hours. ( 17 days working in a 30 day month ). You would get paid 76 hours. That's max pay. If you want to days off, it's not going to give you any free soft time. So it would build 4 four day trips (to 14 days off) at 72 hours. That's max days off. Yes, there are outlier trips for more credit, but not many. Remember when upgrade stops, 50% of the captains and 50% of the first officers will be on the bottom half of each list (duh, I know). They will hardly get anything they want, while the company enjoys massive staffing efficiency. in order to make PBS work for us we would need to ask for a six hour Min day, or min 15 days off per month. PBS is simply not good for the pilot group, and the company would never agree to any restrictions that would help us out. Even though I'm middle of the pack, I think it's a bad deal all around. I enjoy turning one week of vacation into almost 3 weeks.