Originally Posted by
BunkerF16
PTOSB is a scam perpetuated by the company to artificially inflate a small percentage of pilots who can fully utilize the benefit while simultaneously ignoring the pitfalls and negative side effects.
Full disclosure: I'm one of the pilots who benefits from PTOSB. As a very senior FO, I sell back on average about 10 hrs/month which yields me about $25K extra income per year. Also, because of my seniority, I can bid around the days/weeks I want off so I don't need to bid vacation.
Great. For me.
How many people out of nearly 1700 FOs can take full advantage of the system like this?
Not many.
Oh, and God forbid I ever get sick. Bye bye benefit.
PTOSB needs to go. We need industry standard pay/vacation/sick bank systems with appropriate allocation AND distribution. Doesn't do us much good if the majority of vaca weeks are during Sep, Oct, Mar, Apr and May.
I have full confidence that our NC realizes this and will bring us a TA we will be proud of.
I on the other hand, take the time off and reduce to a min schedule. The opportunity cost of being home more outweighs the 25K (imagine that, more to life than money). I have no qualms about guys selling back time. I just prefer to be here as little as possible especially with a commute. My only opinion is to enact a separate PTO/sick account (for reasons mentioned above). But that's my perspective- gained through masters work and data analysis in industrial/organizational psychology and associated work (in which I designed/evaluated employee incentive programs.)