Originally Posted by
pitchattitude
The PBS contract change is yet to be negotiated and has been pushed back. Not even sure they have actually started.
One big area of concern and negotiation is conflict of trips with vacation and being able to subsequently drop those extra flights for more time off. Currently Envoy allows dropping those days and using sick time to cover the pay. Seems like enough people want that to make it a priority in the negotiation and the Envoy FAs have PBS (same software system pilots will be using) and still can conflict vacation with trips and drop, so there is precedent in the company already.
But that is a pretty big source of OT, so it would reduce the system efficiency and Envoy will have their pound of flesh in return if it happens.
We did a pretty thorough project going through the PBS providers a few years ago. They'll pick up the cheapest and sh*ttiest one very likely. But PBS does not mean no DTS, they can run DTS after PBS awards. Heck, some PBS providers even allow slide-and-drop. So you can slide your vacation days by 1-2 days to create even more DTS days (7 days of vacation, get rid of 2 trips, move it up by 1 day to touch your previous trip and get rid of 3 trips).
It's all negotiable. Be smart with it.