The Useful PSA Thread
08-13-2015 | 08:37 AM
#5231
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Everyone gets dumped in DAY on the first award, then TYS for a month or two, then finally CLT. Depending on how long training takes you probably won't ever have to sit in DAY and will be TYS based by the time you finish IOE. If you're lucky you'll only have a couple of weeks there before being based in CLT. This is all based on past trends, which may be skewed now that new hire classes have been temporarily halted, and it's very hard to predict how things will go when they restart, and how much they've been able to shorten the gaps in training.
08-13-2015 | 09:11 AM
#5234
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Correct, however anyone that wants DAY probably lives near there, so there wouldn't be a pressing need for them to suddenly bid to CLT. Basically everyone can hold what they want within 2 months of hitting the line if not sooner.
08-13-2015 | 05:53 PM
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08-14-2015 | 04:37 AM
#5239
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Instead of the company manually building each line and pilots bidding on the lines they want, a computer program has all the trips in one giant pool and starting at pilot #1 looks at what bid preferences they want (days off, start/end time, layover city, etc) and build them a line. Then it moves on to pilot 2, 3, etc. PBS is great if you're senior because you can get pretty much any line you want, especially if you need an odd set of days off or something where with line bidding you probably wouldn't have a line that suits your needs. If you're junior it sucks because you're stuck with all the trips that wouldn't work on anyone else's line and the program is forced to cram your schedule with whatever works, regardless of your bid options.
08-14-2015 | 06:18 AM
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Instead of the company manually building each line and pilots bidding on the lines they want, a computer program has all the trips in one giant pool and starting at pilot #1 looks at what bid preferences they want (days off, start/end time, layover city, etc) and build them a line. Then it moves on to pilot 2, 3, etc. PBS is great if you're senior because you can get pretty much any line you want, especially if you need an odd set of days off or something where with line bidding you probably wouldn't have a line that suits your needs. If you're junior it sucks because you're stuck with all the trips that wouldn't work on anyone else's line and the program is forced to cram your schedule with whatever works, regardless of your bid options.
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