Amen to that! I got a week of vacation coming up, that I was able to turn into 29 days off....try doing that with PBS, without being in the top 10%!!!!!

I don't mean 20 days off total for the month. I just mean that i could get 20 days off just from my vacation...with that I could work 4 days or so giving me another 6 days off for the month. totaling 26 days off. I know captains and flight attendants that can take off an entire summer.

With PBS you really are gambling that scheduling will create whats best for you not the company. At Least with a line bidding system you know what your possibilities are..

thanks for the replies guys.
49.9% of us voted no for this crap, but its here and I dont wana get hosed more by not bidding right

From what I heard Mesa has set some options in PBS to limit us to only getting 11 days off a bid (the minimum). Anyone else hear this?

The mock bidding was a joke. Both round 1 and 2 it gave me the exact opposite of what I told it I wanted

dont no about the mesa side but freedoms pairings are so horrible that its almost impossible to have >11 days off and get into the window.
the Mock 1 they changed the window from 70 to 66 because they could only build a few lines to 70. they only build 4 day trips and only a few were over 17.5 hrs (4X17.5=70)
pbs will work much, much better if they could build some decent pairings. trip rigs anyone? anyone

I'm getting hosed with my PBS results too. I'm not very happy about it either.

come on guys you all have a stong industry leading contract. riiiiiiiiiight.. you can polish a turd but its still a piece of ******.

Well said.

you guys are preaching to the choir here. Im sure with the FUBAR implementation this thing wouldn't pass by a fairly large margin if voted on again. im a proud member of the 400