Well since your post is all about you, lets go over what we don't like(I used it for 7 yrs). First jr. Guys get hosed, it does not honor everything, it likes to have you at work, not off. It reduces staffing, when bidding hard lines I know what ill get, pbs tells me what I can have. Say I want mon-weds off each week, but it can only give me it once or twice, now I get a line with 4 on 1 off 4 on, 4 on 1 off 4 on. Then another 4 off. For those of you that rather be at work then home, read a flying magazine all day, and go to air shows in between shifts thats a great schedule otherwise the rest of us with lives rather not have that. Also if it doesn't like any of my bid then I get whatever it wants, meaning the ****ty of **** trips. But hey it works for you so who cares about the other 3000, you wont like it when you start losing aircraft. I wouldn't even say jr. Guys get hosed so do sr. Bidding for trips specifically is hard because you don't know what trips the guys in front of you bid for so. So basically after #5 on the list you bid days off and report and release and hope it works. Still I'm glad it works for you, but will it work for while other company's are flying your aircraft?

 

Just means we can't bid into a conflict and get 19 days off for a weeks worth of vacation...while it is an awesome benefit to working the system, I understand the inefficiency of it and the company's desire to go to PBS.

Plus, a lot of guys on here just like to b$&!@ and moan.

 

The lack of open time. Due to training, transition, and vacation conflicts, we end up with a good amount of open time after bids close with the paper bid system. In the summer time it means REALLY good trips in open time, since that's when senior guys have vacation. I do really good with trip trading. I take me crap 13 day off 4 day trip all weekend, worth 18 hour each, and 73 hours total and trade it into good trips with partial weekends off worth 98 hours. My Dad has PBS at United and he has nothing in open time ever, hes stuck with what he gets.

 

Have you ever used it, you'll join us *****ing and moaning once you do.

 

Many moons ago in a far off galaxy management and the union agreed to where the first day of the new month the trip carrying over would only have one leg on it, into the base. that took care of all conflicts, simple and easy. no pbs or alpa b.s..

 

Do you feel better now? Was all that really necessary? I was simply asking what you were worried about because I was genually curious. I didn't have much of a paper bid opportunity to really compare it to anything. I spent plenty of time at the bottom to know what scheds are like for junior guys. Thanks to those who gave mature responses without attacking the obvious. You stay classy samballs.

 

Good point. I notice most our open time is high speeds or stand ups. Nothing really there to help fix your schedule. Our schedulers used to "hide" good trips on reserve pilots so we couldn't see them.

 

Wait... you think they would integrate the lists? You must not have been watching the current situation of those airlines bought by Skywest, haha.

 

Love how you guys are arguing over something that is a done deal. There's no changing it now. 75% of our pilots voted for it. I was a NO vote but i accept the fact it passed, nothing we can do about it now besides get used to it or get the ef out.

 

I think almost our entire class voted no. Except maybe Ralph.