1) ASA

2) 25% in seat (ATL CRJ FO)

3) Only had vacation during the practice bids and not the live bidding for Feb, but each time I never had less than 20 days in a row with a single week of vacation. Had that been a live schedule, I would have been paid guarantee.

4) So far, yes. the PBS system is MUCH better than the previous line bidding at our company. Most people are holding better schedules with PBS than they were with line bidding.

5) I'm really loving the system. With line bidding, we had no flexibility except to swap trips in open time. Of course, ASA was very inconsistent with building lines, except that they consistently sucked. Most lines had 2 or 3 commutable trips and another that was not commutable. We were always having to attempt open time swaps and trip trades. Also, the average line values did not vary greatly in a given month. Now we have the flexibility to set our desired credit within a 30 hour window.

In my opinion, the PBS system is far better than when we were line bidding. One especially bad month for us was July 2010. The overwhelming majority of all lines were 4 days on, 2 days off. It was MISERABLE. I won't see that again with PBS because I have control over what days my pairings start. Opinions will of course vary based on how your company builds your lines. Our lines were terrible, so we are seeing significant improvements even though the pairings still generally suck.

As others have said, your schedule is only as good as the pairings the company builds. We really need some more control over trip construction to bring PBS to its full potential.