Originally Posted by
MaxQ
I mean this as an honest question. I am not busting your chops.
Do you put as a top tier preference a minimum of days off in a row?
Example: max six days on and min 2 days off?
Or do you not bid for days in a row off?
(I know as a commuter, days off in blocks is important, not so much if one lives in base....ala Allegiant)
As an FO I specifically add a condition in the bid for a minimum of two days off between trips and also explicitly avoid split duty (stand ups) as well as one particular airport in our route structure that has a reputation for being a career-ender, at least in the winter. I've never received a bid counter to this so PBS works as intended.
That said, we are seriously short captains at the moment so captains are definitely being ridden hard and put away wet here. So anything is possible I suppose. The upside? 300% nearly daily for captains, or so it seems. Some captains are really cleaning up at the moment. Wish I was one of them.