Originally Posted by
Powderkeg
Not exactly, at least how I understand it. I think it will be at union scheduling committee discretion but they can withhold UP TO 4% for open time. But they may opt to reduce that amount in favor of awarding more hard lines and honoring more preferences.
But as another poster stated, without a PBS LOA in writing it’s somewhat difficult to predict.
I was partially wrong...it's not a minimum, but it's not difficult to predict because the written PBS LOA we already have says "Open time for any bid period shall be 4% of the total bid period pairing credit at the time of Final Schedule." Not a minimum, not a maximum, not at SSC discretion.