Originally Posted by Turbosina

You can already see that. Just look at the flow board. If I bid for a certain trip and didn't get it, I can always wait till the day prior to the trip and check the flow board to see who got it.

In that respect, our bids are already 'transparent.' It's just a giant PITA to actually see who got the trip. The company blathers on about 'privacy'...well, if the vast majority of the pilot group wants their bids published, as I am entirely sure is the case, then privacy is not a concern...and there isn't any privacy anyways because of the flow board.

The company just doesn't want people seeing how often seniority is being ignored. PBS is only as good as the parameters the company sets for it, and globalization (read: ignoring seniority) is the only way PBS is able to cover so much flying with 10% fewer pilots than other airlines. It's just simple math.

And I say this as someone who knows, reasonably well, how to bid (I finally read the entire PBS manual cover to cover multiple times, and experimented with different strategies....after 2 years I can finally get all P1/P2 trips, even with the September dropoff in flying.

But again, when the company insists that XX pilots cover XXXXX hours of flying, the only way to do that is via globalization. And the company would prefer that we not see exactly how pernicious this problem is, nor what it does to senior folks who aren't awarded the trips they should be able to hold.