Originally Posted by
symbian simian
Maybe a definition thing, but AFAIAC we will still have hard line in two months, it is what you get with "award pairings". It is easier with line bidding as opposed to working with a credit window, I agree (build a line with trips, doesn't get guarantee, bump it up to guarantee), so maybe minimum days would work better, but right now every line could have 12 days off and be compliant, and I am sure that would be unacceptable to all of us.
No. Hard lines refers to prebuilt Lines with no preassignnents or knowledge of what your past flying history was. There are no hard lines with PBS.
And the minimum days off is 13 by the way. Who keeps spouting 12. That's reserves in 30 day bid periods only