Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 1705122)

Not sure if it applies in your case but the biggest thing biting pilots in bidding now is the 100 in 28 days. I was illegal for the trip I really wanted by 11 minutes into the buffer. If you had a lot of flying in August you might have had that issue for trips in the front half of Sep.

Originally Posted by Flamer (Post 1705120)

Strong reroute pay and language is the best way to fix this. 1.5 pay for every minute after a reroute and you would see the airborne reroute reserve system shrink dramatically.

Originally Posted by Herkflyr (Post 1705167)

For starters have you read your Reasons Report? It details exactly why you did or did not get trips awarded on your line. That should answer about 99% of potential questions.

If your Reasons Report doesn't fully address your questions, then we have a very specific, contractual inquiry process. Go to the DeltaNet, select Crew Resources and Crew Scheduling, then on the right side of the page, select "Forms and Inquiries" then select the PBS Bid Inquiry link. It is the only contractually guaranteed remedy that follows very specific protocols. Anything else--a phone call, a post here, a "what the heck?" email there--might or might not answer your question, but it does not provide for a contractual remedy, if one is called for.

About 99% of the time PBS worked exactly as it was supposed to, but sometimes there are genuine errors. Sometimes a very strange confluence of FARs and contractual changes are perhaps not fully accounted for in the PBS software. One time a pilot had jury duty and the company rep actually inputted the wrong jury duty dates (by two weeks!) into the system. When the pilot discovered that, he correctly submitted the bid inquiry, and the entire category was rerun. Etc.

Originally Posted by Carl Spackler (Post 1705029)

If ALPA national ever let us do that, I'll buy you a steak dinner and all the beer you can drink.

Carl

Originally Posted by Purple Drank (Post 1705186)

Absolutely. The current reroute provisions are essentially a signed blank check for the company. Unacceptable.

Originally Posted by GunshipGuy (Post 1705126)

Steve Dickson wrote an All Pilots Memo saying the PWA no longer applies with regard to some things. One of them is domicile layovers. Didn't you get the memo?

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Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 1705195)

Denny,

Is it a coverage award? Awards for coverage only look at very limited bid preferences.

Originally Posted by Flamer (Post 1705120)

Strong reroute pay and language is the best way to fix this. 1.5 pay for every minute after a reroute and you would see the airborne reroute reserve system shrink dramatically.

Originally Posted by NERD (Post 1705211)

You are shooting way too low. It should be GS pay until back on original rotation. In over 20 years of airline flying, I have never been rerouted as much as I have since the merger. It reminds me of my pt135 on demand charter days. Every time you land, they have a new trip for you. I'll give them a break as far as last Friday or even the ice events, but when there is not a cloud within 2000 NM of Atlanta and another crew is running 20 minutes late and they reroute you that is total BS.