Originally Posted by
Judge Smails
The bottom 50% barely gets what they want with line bidding anyway. Our current line bidding blows (blasphemous to say, I know). Even if you're senior, good luck avoiding blocks of six days on, and if you want ALL weekends off, it ain't happening. But hey, transition is great for the top 25% and those four days off really help you recover from the six on you just did.
I did between 65 and 70% in my face and I usually get my first or second choice. You are correct though, in saying that the 4 days off ruins all weekends off for us. In my base there are predominately 4 day trips. Rarely do we work six in a row, although I know that's more common for other bases. I also got a 4+4 transition conflict last month. So it is possible to get one even as low as I am. I guess my point was with PBS the lines wouldn't get any better for most of us, but we would lose all transition conflict and vacation drops.