PBS vs Seniority
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Joined APC: Feb 2019
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Joined APC: Apr 2022
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Envoy publishes lines with specified trips/reserve days and days off and the pilots bid on them. Most people use the Quickbids app but you can also bid manually in SABRE/FOS. There is a trip trading system after preliminary bid awards. You can request to drop days and it is approved when there is adequate staffing in your base and position. Reserves can request to swap or drop reserve days. We're over staffed rignt now in anticipation of aircraft deliveries soon, so flexibility will be reduced when we get more planes. I'm sure scheduling is much better at the legacies but it's very civilized for a regional.
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DFW CA not so much. Ask any DFW CA on RAP reserve and they're flying or at the very least getting called to sit standby nearly every day. Yes, the good news is we're getting new (and used) aircraft on a monthly basis, but staffing is stretched thin. The number of DFW hard lines for February shot up to about 350ish, up from the average 320-325.
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DFW CA not so much. Ask any DFW CA on RAP reserve and they're flying or at the very least getting called to sit standby nearly every day. Yes, the good news is we're getting new (and used) aircraft on a monthly basis, but staffing is stretched thin. The number of DFW hard lines for February shot up to about 350ish, up from the average 320-325.
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Joined APC: May 2022
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I'm sitting 30-40% on the DFW CA reserve list. Bid reserve intentionally- I'm local. Prefer to fly as little as possible. Some months, I go 4-6 days unused. Other months, every day. I do enjoy the quick turns done by 12, 1, 2pm... February was good though. Sure I could hold a line and get 14 days off, but not necessarily the days I need and all 4 day trips. I know the commuters want that. Some days we have a ton of CAs on RAP. Other days like today, we had 5 or 6 I believe on RAP1. All were used before 6am.... and there were still several morning trips to be assigned.
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