Originally Posted by
Jungle Jim
How so? I can tell PBS to build me a line based of 90 credit hours a month, and it will if I have the seniority to hold that. Doesn't take upper echelon seniority to do that either...just enough to be off the bottom of line holders. Plenty of guys here (YX) crediting >90 hours a month with 17 or more days off. Your crappy lines in a bid packet won't get you that without picking up OT on your very few off days. I've never understood the line bidding is better than PBS argument.
PBS takes the same sequence pairings that we have with line bidding. So you get the same credit each sequence so you'd have to work a lot more days to increase your credit. PBS also gets rid of transition, vacation, training and flight time conflicts so you lose out on pay from there while also taking away most open time so you lose the ability to pick up overtime. That's how you lose money.... there's a reason the company had a 5 million dollar price tag on it if we chose to say no to PBS.