Not necessarily. PBS assigns trips until you get to a specified number of hours (set by the company, hopefully with substantial ALPA input). If you increase the value of vacation days, then your vacation week would be worth more, then you would have to work LESS hours (giving you more days off) the rest of the month to get yourself up to the monthly line divisor.

It's all in what we negotiate, folks. Nobody said this was going to be a concession (in fact I will personally start a recall drive for the reps if they try to pass off a concession to us when there's no reason to). Keep in mind the reason PBS sucks at most airlines is because it was shoved down their throats at the end of bankruptcy with little negotiation and preparation. It's no secret that the two airlines with the best PBS system (DL and NW) were the last to go through BK and therefore had the benefit of learning from everybody else's mistakes.

The company asked the union to "negotiate" for PBS. However, since we are not in Section 6, the union can leave at any point if they don't like the way things are going. There is no requirement that we have to get a deal out of this, all they are doing (from what I can gather) is sitting down and talking to the company and seeing if it makes sense.