Originally Posted by
Otterbox
From the company’s view, PBS will cut down on manning requirements by up to 30% by eliminating conflicts (training, vacation, month to month bidding) allowing it to staff more with the people it has. Envoys schedules will start to mirror Piedmont’s (min days off for min guarantee, trip credits averaging 4hrs per day etc.). Not a direction anyone with an appreciation for QOL should look forward to going.
On the 175 that's not possible because the average segment length is so much longer than Piedmonts.
Unless they go with Jepp (which they won't because of their pricing), they will still use the same pairing generator so the trips themselves won't suddenly become any better.
With rigs they will just build the pairings with turns front and back of the trip, so no more 1-2-2-1 flying on the heavy, effectively making every trip non-commutable. This would also increase productivity by a lot and reduce staffing requirements. This can be protected inside the work rules since commutability is a metric they already measure, it just has to be bargained inside the LOA.
Unless protected by the LOA, PBS can also remove the day trip lines. (eg. set max monthly credit to 85 and max days off to 18 and boom, here's your lost day in GRK to fill up your day trips).
PBS is all about work rules, it can be great, or it can destroy the little QOL Envoy still has.
A Nancy Pelosi PBS is a scary thought.