Coverage awards must be processed from the same bid group as your awarded schedule. Pbs identifies the days you are subject to coverage and ignores any prefer offs for those days. It awards a trip or trips that operate on the coverage days using the remaining lines in your bid.

Great info, that makes it a lot more clear, thanks

Not entirely true. The only bid commands PBS considers during Coverage are Prefer Off, Award and Avoid.

Holiday pay
 

When does the extra 5:15 for flying a trip that touches a holiday show up on the time card?

Per the implementation LOA and the “timecards” thread, the first couple months of holiday pay is a manual process. The guess is after trip close out. I would keep an eye on it to insure it gets added.

I asked the same question in another thread. Apparently the 5:15 has to be input manually when they close the trip per implementation schedule.

Yes. Holiday pay is intended to reduce PBS stacking on the holiday, that is, not have so much forced coverage and so many uncovered trips that day. And it seems to have done that to some extent. But looking at the ATL320A wide report does seem to show there is still an open time stack, but the stack has shifted to the days just before the 29th memorial holiday.

And the most senior pilots did not really bid for a PBS holiday trip, only about 15 percent or so of the top 100 pilots did. I thought about it too, but did not bid a PBS holiday trip because I try not to fly bid package trips. But I fully intend to pick up an ARCOS white slip over the Memorial Day holiday instead.

I'm about 70% in ATL. I could have easily had Memorial Day off this year. I'm starting to think I might hold the 4th of July off..... I knew when this made the contract the pilots Senior to me would not disappoint by flying holiday trips for an extra day of pay.....Thanks ALPA!

Well according to Bill (or is it Rose??) on FB holiday pay is stealing his GS.

I've seen that. Sheesh, that guy (gal) is a piece of work.....