Merle Haggard

I'm gonna respectfully disagree. I've worked under PBS, I have family members being PBS'd. There's are plenty of reasons that the companies wanted it and the pilots didn't.

I must also add that PBS provides the company with lots more avenues to manipulate, obfuscate, and otherwise meddle. Has FDX demonstrated that they'd be an honest and transparent partner in the application of PBS?

Adlerdriver

Second, third and fourth THIS^^^^^^^^^^^

Just because you came from someplace with an acceptable PBS doesn't mean that will translate here. I'll take the ability to conflict and go light or not work at all when it suits me over an optimized schedule the hits BLG every month I don't have vacation. When I do have vaca, I want the option for the whole month off. Try that with PBS. Senior is gonna get what they want regardless of how it happens. It's the junior folks who can sometimes work some magic with conflicts, view/add, recurrent, etc. Moosefire, If you think carryover is just an opportunity to work more at straight time then you're not doing it correctly, IMO. Junior pilots with big trips who happen to have C/O only have to protect min days off and now they have a potential chance to grab something their seniority can't normally hold from the view/add or just hawking OT. Does it work always? Of course not, especially now with minimum OT. But I'd take that any day over rolling the bones with a PBS schedule that's going to give me a full line that I'll probably not be able to drop and might set a domestic flyer up for 3-5 commutes per monnth.

The new secondary software is on the horizon. That's going to be telling. If the company wanted anyone to even consider PBS, they'd make that new system the most kick-ass secondary line process in the industry. My guess is that it will be a far cry from that and cement the fact that PBS at FedEx will be a mistake that will degrade QOL for the forseeable future. Don't tell me about PBS at your last place of work. It won't even be close here.

Stan446

I've had the number one SLG and it a crapshoot. You don't know why your choices aren't allowed, you have no idea if what you put in will be awarded because the trial is only one day. If anyone thinks a PBS bidding system that would be exactly like the SLG system is great, they are nuts.

And the Secondary software was supposed to be out what, 5 years ago?