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I think the reason why that’s not a more widespread solution among the remaining non-pbs pilot groups, is that it defeats managements whole purpose of a secondary bid. This is the reason why a pure pbs solution doesn’t require a secondary bid. Think of it this way, if there were no secondary bid, all the conflicted trips would simply be in open time when the window opens. Obviously management doesn’t want that much open time. So we have a secondary bid to award lines out of the leftovers. But if we had a whole other build process and pilots able to conflict on lines again, then you end up with some amount of open time again. Which I personally wouldnt be against, like it seems the SWAPA guys aren’t (although sometimes you don’t know what you don’t know). But we also have to negotiate that if we want it. And you can’t always force the other side to accept your idea during negotiations..
Prime the pump is a pretty weak argument. Do we really believe that any leftover uncovered pairings that didn’t go into secondary lines wouldn’t get traded for or R days dropped for when open time begins? Especially when we can go -12 without a makeup bank balance each month? This whole secondary system allows the company to disregard seniority rights for conveniences.
Swapa guys can also conflict vacations with secondary lines and it is a huge quality of life boost for secondary line holders. Our system is straight up pbs and it destroys our benefit of seniority, not unlike the “best fit” practice of assigning R day trips out of order. And we accept them both with a shrug because we can’t see fighting for improvements on our quality of life.
The “obviously management doesn’t want” sentence in this post quoted above can be used anywhere in our contract to justify a bad deal for the worker bees and is my entire point of our seemingly perpetual concessionary mindset. DR K