Originally Posted by
dojetdriver
I'm getting it just fine, and understand PBS just fine. What I'm getting at is this: If the the company doesn't build ANY 2 day pairings, PBS CAN'T award any 2 day pairings.
The company has a percentage that can not be 4 day trips. It was talked about in a previous post by another ASA pilot. Not sure the percentage but I think he said 60% can be 4 days leaving 40% everything else.
Originally Posted by
dojetdriver
Yep, understand that just fine too. What I'm getting at is that PBS is about efficiency. Due to the drastic reduction in open time because it avoids conflicts, the availability of trips to trade with greatly reduces.
In theory (again just an opinion), it's still the same. The way it works is this: That trip that you wanted but was assigned to the senior line holder (even with the conflict), you'll now receive it in PBS on your awarded line. Since they can not assign a conflict, it will still sit in the "bucket" of pairings. So you still have a chance of receiving that trip.
Originally Posted by
dojetdriver
What I was saying before was that the availability to trade for those 2 days just simply may not be there.
It seems that the PBS system is pretty good that ASA went with. But the question I asked on that other board, as well on our company mssg board is this: Do the ASA guys think the way this award came out will be indicative of the way it will always be? For the junior guys that got good schedules, will it always be that way or was it a temporary thing since some of the guys senior to you were technologically deficient and don't understand the system well enough yet to exploit it?
That's to be determined. Give it a couple more months.
Originally Posted by
dojetdriver
Again, the point I made before was that even when XJT downsized, and our pairings went to crap, we could STILL trade in the LIW's to improve our lines with the amount of time created. Even if those pairings weren't there on the initial bid but were there after crew planning made them from conflict, etc. With PBS, it's gonna give what it gives, based on preferences of course. But if the company is building nothing but crap sucking candy bar pairings, the ability to improve the schedule isn't as good.
Make sense?
The last comment I have is that from what I'm seeing there is really no change to the trades, drops and open time. If you're the top 1/3 of the company you may still not receive a few trips that you want. They may be 2 or 3 days and that person may put it in the open time bucket similar to now. Although PBS has the potential to allow a schedule to be closer to what the holder wants, you're still not going to receive 100% (unless you're #1). So with that said, open time will still have stuff in it to trade out.