This thread has helped me understand PB days and how pilots are utilizing them a lot better. I can see why the company would be targeting them in negotiations. It’s a section of the contract I have never utilized, but I now see the value of PB days even for me. I can now see altering the reserve GS system will cause a No vote from me.

While this thread might look like negotiating in public it has helped me determine the value of a contract section I’ve never used, but have unknowingly benefitted from. Sometimes having a discussion of the sections various pilots hold dear is very important.
Prior to learning more about PB days, I would have viewed them as fairly inconsequential. Now I see any alternation as a poison pill in the contract.