Originally Posted by
ImperialxRat
Sorry for being snarky in my other post, I just meant that there are plenty of rumors in aviation and they’re not always accurate. There is a good chance we will switch to a PBS system, it’s something that is being negotiated.
Plan for what we have currently though.. it’s a line big system that then has two trading windows where you can attempt to trade trips in a seniority system. It’s not really reliable as a super junior person, and most the time any day you would want to trade into will be closed, unless you’re just trying to get a random weekday day off.
Then is the open flying lines and reserve bidding. Open flying lines are made up of extra pairings and trips that drop for conflict and vacation. Reserve lines have “12 days off” each month, although they’re not calendar days, they’re blocks of time (48 hours, etc). You can try and move days around to have 6 reserve days in a row.
Welcome aboard!
Thanks, and no worries. What’s an airline without some good rumors. What I meant about scheduling and being flexible is probably not what is used at AS. One of my previous employers had a couple of people in the scheduling office that would work with you one-on-one if you needed a day moved around here or there. Line bidding is completely new to me. It looks simple enough, but not much flexibility to get the specific trips you want based on how you need your month to look when it comes to time off.
If I understand it, a junior person, such as myself will be, only looks at the reserve bid lines and picks one and hopefully that’s the one you get. If you don’t get the one you want, what happens then? Do you just get assigned one and if it sucks, it sucks?