Originally Posted by
deltajuliet
While more pilots would help mitigate unstacking, it would still happen if every single pilot bid for Thanksgiving Day off and that's when most flying needs to be done. As for PBS, our union guy who's good enough to come on here, explain things, and answer questions also helps with creating schedules on PBS. It's not the company doing it unilaterally. On top of that, our union is also involved in the creation of trips before we bid on them. It's true we could create 4 day trips worth 24 hours, but you would get some worth 15 hours along with some awful 2 and 3 day trips. The reverse is true as well, and our people try to find a happy medium with the company, or at least as happy as possible considering what our mainline overlords give us.
Sorry, you are incorrect with the unstacking due to everyone bidding for Thanksgiving off while being staffed. It would not unstack if Mesa was staffed. It would use denial mode as it ran the bids of the more junior who also wanted it but at that point was unavailable.
Again. Unstacking is Understaffed. That is the companies doing.
Denial mode means you do not have enough seniority to hold it. (In so many words)
It sounds like you already are willing to follow your trainer off the cliff so I doubt you will listen to me.
Sure it is great MAGPBS is trying to help but if he doesn't get it then I can't help you. As my other posts indicate in response to him, I don't think he knows what he is talking about. Each to himself.