Originally Posted by
BirdOn
The thing I hate most with our pbs system is that you can only Award Pairings with a single layover per line. So if you see an awesome 3 day trip with layovers in A and B that you really want, you have to either preference laying over in A over B or B over A. The system will then award you a trip with Layover A and then EWR, instead of layover B that you wanted. My only recourse is going through the bid packets, finding the individual trip numbers, and then awarding that specific pairing before any of my preferences in PBS. So then I have like 20-30 lines of individuals trips I want. OH and then on the 10th they update all the trips in the packet and you have to go through ALL OF THEM to make sure the company didn't change a pairing number.
Navblue was the best.
We use NavBlue at DAL, and it seems to work pretty well. Our version is tweaked, and we get 200 lines, and there is a "FORGET & REDO" command that lets you relax some preferences and use the same lines over, so it actually saves lines for other things.