Originally Posted by
NewGuy01
In my short time here I’ve seen things get worse every single time something changes.
I think that’s why pilots are so afraid of change here at AS. Also the company would just violate the implementation LOA when PBS was set up.
A year ago they just took away vacation trading and vacation open time. It was insane. Just poof gone.
I had PBS at SkyWest and it was great. But with how things are at AS it would just be used to hose us even harder than we get hosed now.
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Vacation trading is a contractual provision. They can't just take that away. What happened, apparently, is that they always released more vacation open days than required for the process of bidding vacations but after that was done, they left those extra days in the pool of vacation open days. They changed that practice and removed the days, to just what's required by the contractual minimum. Just clarifying that for any newbie reading, you can still do vacation trading with both open time and other pilots. Just that the pool has been depleted for when Nov 3 comes around. For some bases/seats, that was zero for a while before some days finally popped into open time.