PBS can be disasterous when understaffed. The company sets a minimum credit threshold that EVERY awarded schedule has to hit regardless of seniority.
If there’s no staffing, the credit threshold can be over 90 hours and sometimes approach 100 hours for every pilot in the system.
Just think: 95 hours indefinitely with your only option being to trade down to lower value trips (maybe), but rarely an extra day off. Increasing time off in a vacation month? Not likely. Unless you have a vacation-low feature which is very, very unlikely to return.
Seeing as how that’s our new modus operandi, they will exploit it to its fullest.
Touch-drop line bidding with ILIW is not worth giving up. They will try.
Last edited by DownInPetaluma; 11-16-2019 at 03:35 PM.