Alaska folks.. PBS
08-14-2014 | 11:58 AM
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Alaska folks.. PBS
Looks like our combined company (American) has selected AOS as the vendor for our upcoming transition to pbs . How do you all like it? Does your pilot group have many controls? I have used navtech pbs in a previous life and had no complaints. Thanks for any info!
08-14-2014 | 01:28 PM
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08-14-2014 | 01:59 PM
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I don't think there's a perfect PBS program out there. You may get screwed at times and won't know it unless you talk to people immediately senior and junior to you to compare notes.
08-14-2014 | 02:20 PM
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Our FAs have PBS. I haven't heard too many complaints, except I just flew a trip with an FA who mentioned that the computer had a glitch and most of their bids got screwed up. She got stuff way worse than what her seniority can hold. This happened to other FAs also.
I don't think there's a perfect PBS program out there. You may get screwed at times and won't know it unless you talk to people immediately senior and junior to you to compare notes.
I don't think there's a perfect PBS program out there. You may get screwed at times and won't know it unless you talk to people immediately senior and junior to you to compare notes.
08-14-2014 | 05:59 PM
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For those wondering, in this case a seniority violation-centric sytem, if you will, would take a desirable higher time trip off a senior guy's tentative line so as to give it to a junior guy and give the junior guy a just-legal line; at DAL we would rather the junior guy get a reserve line than the senior guy not get what his seniority allowed him to get, all in the interest of "creating more lines."
Okay, I am not an AS or AA guy, so I will bow out of this thread.
08-15-2014 | 06:22 AM
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In my experience with AOS, the above examples can occur, but only if the company puts too many constraints on the system. For example, when the company told the system to build each line to a Min 90hrs, and a Max of 95hrs, it puts too much pressure on the system and sometimes a senior bidder would lose a high credit trip and have it replaced with a lower credit trip just to meet the credit window. If the system is allowed to build lines between between 70-85, or 75-90, for example, then this problem will not occur.
I have used both Navtech and AOS, and while I prefer Navtech, I didn't mind AOS that much.
I have used both Navtech and AOS, and while I prefer Navtech, I didn't mind AOS that much.
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