Originally Posted by
Yetifan
I also used to be anti PBS! Spent close to 9 years using it at my previous airline. But, once I learned how to use it, the potential blew me away. I'm junior at VX and holding commutable trips with a MINIMUM of 15 days off. It's usually more like 17-18 though. Whatever system we get I'm good with as long as the work rules are in place. That's what we need fight for!
So you're saying the PAIRINGS are efficient and commutable. Perhaps your schedule would turn out just as good if you were bidding lines full of high quality pairings, too.
We (VX) have a pilot building our pairings. Who builds them at Alaska?
And I second Shyguy's question: without pay protection for pairings dropped in conflict with pre-assignments, where is the value in line bidding?