Originally Posted by
immolated
Pretty sure last decade it was the company's idea to introduce single day PB washing, back when they needed WB pilots to liquidate their vacation in lieu of huge shortfalls for summer. Can anyone confirm or paste the exact comm if you still have it?
Does heather know about this?
I can't recall when it started, but I know at one point, you could only do the 1 PB day thing, when they had converted to supp days, which was Jan-Mar the year after your earned the PB days. In the year you earned them, if you dropped a 3 day, and had 3 PB days, it used all 3 PB days. Then suddenly they started letting us drop them one at a time. I want to say this happened in the late teens/early 20s, and I thought I heard it was the company's decision to allow it. So ya, she may want to go check the notes on that one.
I suspected that with this recent PB day stunt, they were trying to take it back to the days of 3 PB in the bank meant you used them all if you dropped a 3 day trip.
Originally Posted by
saturn
She realizes to use 1 PB day to drop a 4-day trip requires all four days to have + coverage in order to drop it, right? It's not about staffing. They just like PB days paying 4:35 max. Be honest.
The change to allow 1 PB day at a time was a massive cost increase that I don't think they really thought through, especially in the 350, where 3 PB days have gone from costing 28 hours to 42 hours. But they also didn't really think through making them all go to vacation as now they probably have a massive staffing issues in some categories. There are probably a lot of people than are now nearly useless to them for a large portion of the year.