Originally Posted by
Moosefire
The ONLY advantage of our line bidding is vacation, and I'll be the first to concede that.
otherwise youre limited to how the PSIT constructs the lines... wanna fly your hometown but hate working weekends? Tough... they built your city through two weekends out of the month. Like flying to STL but hate going to Vegas? Tough... they build them together and never change it up.
once upon a time you could get a close match and adjust with trades swaps, but that requires open time.
Why do we act like carry over is so great? It's just working more days at straight time. Training conflicts? Ok cool, so you get to play in the view/add... which coincidentally looks a whole lot like good PBS.
I'm gonna respectfully disagree. I've worked under PBS, I have family members being PBS'd. There's are plenty of reasons that the companies wanted it and the pilots didn't.
I must also add that PBS provides the company with lots more avenues to manipulate, obfuscate, and otherwise meddle. Has FDX demonstrated that they'd be an honest and transparent partner in the application of PBS?