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All Bizniz
Having lived through these past few months of AS line bidding, I feel like a mad scientist with each monthly bidding event... opening this valve here with my left hand, capping that line there with my right foot, pressing this button with my chin, all while plugging that hole with my right thumb in a vain attempt at wrangling a somewhat decent schedule/QOL out of this system of sorting Lines, then Step 1and Step 2, etc......and the work arounds!!!.... It's insane I tell you!! lol
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I've flown with senior pilots who are dedicated to hard lines. In the course of a 3 day trip I bet they spent 4+ hours going through the bid packets. That's a lot of work - every month.
And first and second step is largely useless if you are junior. I've been successful in only one trip trade in ten attempts.
I've lived under both hard lines and PBS and I am ambivalent with a few exceptions. People need to understand that PBS is a generic description and that the devil's in the details - and there's A LOT of details. PBS won't make things better without the Union controlling it. I think a lot of the resistance against PBS from hard line bidding advocates is that they don't trust Angle Lake. Vacation language would have to change too.
I believe that a PBS system with good rules would benefit Alaska pilots. But would we get that? Maybe, maybe not.
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