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.