Originally Posted by
boog123
PBS and average day vs Min day were responsible for 90% of the manning shift during BK, per the reps. There’s a reason airline management wanted those two things so badly. At NWA, those two things resulted in needing 15-18% less pilots overnight.
Those numbers are a bit high from what I head from my Rep at the time. The top end was about 15%, with the month-to-month transition absorbing most of that at about 8-9%. Vacation, training, mil leave accounts for the rest.
PBS at NWA was pushed in kind of an aggressive way by a handful of guys, and it was in place well before BK. The "paper bidding" before that could be best described as "Wow, this is a bit weird. There has to be a story behind it." Reserve bidding was handled differently because reserves were all separate categories from line holders.