Originally Posted by Beta82

OTZ is a troll, he just here to stoke the flames. He's obviously missing a few brain cells if he happy with this contract and can't figure out that a better contract for everyone will be more MONEY for him.

But to address your comment. The reason the productivity is dwindling on the Airbus is because it has now become the regional feed for the Boeing in some sense. It's harder to build productive trips with more legs with less block time per leg on avg. In addition, the contract has asinine rules like 5:51 that handicap us. I would venture to guess that while the productivity has slid from around 6 hours per day to 5.5 per day on the Airbus, the increase in productivity is gladly being accepted on the Boeing side.

Also, a side note is that unless the pairing optimizer is specifically told to create late shows and early releases, the best solution is early shows and late release. This gives the optimizer the most flexibility in building pairings and doesn't cost anymore to keep you on duty (besides 2.15 an hour). Any constraints you add to the optimizer, like late shows or early releases will have a negative effect on the solution (i.e. higher cost). In fact if you were to let it do whatever it would build 5 and even 6 day pairings as that is the 117 limit and some of the best use of a crewmember.

PBS isn't the magical silver bullet, garbage in garbage out. if you put crap pairings into it it will give you crap lines. Right now the Airbus side is reeling from a decrease in productivity per day, not so much from line bidding. It's just with PBS you had some success with picking certain days off and not spending multiple hours trying to figure out which line is the least crappy.

Avg credit per calendar day of greater than 5.5, duty rigs, and new credit limits (like 70 or 75) for each line built need to be implemented. The line bidding or PBS would then sort itself out.