Originally Posted by
Foodstamps
Obviously someone works on holidays, but if you understand how PBS works, it basically creates a window. For this example we will use Christmas as Dec 23-26th. As long as you work within that window, it's basically the same as working on the holiday. So bid a trip that ends on Dec 23rd or starts the evening of Dec 26th and PBS essentially says "cool, he's worked the holiday" and it won't try to assign another pairing within that holiday window. Someone gets boned further down the list eventually, but in many cases, since we had holiday pay under our old contract, finding holiday coverage wasn't hard.
My understanding of PBS is that it just looks at open trips as well as reserve coverage for set days, not that it considers that a given pilot has to work in a specific date range.
Basically what it considers is what trips are left and what day's they are on (IE it can't leave all the holiday days to the bottom of the list because they can't work more than one trip on the same day) and how many of the reserves it needs on given days.