04-26-2024Quote:
The very senior can protect themselves. The very junior can steal flying from those not smart enough to crack the code.
The rest of the 80 percent of the pilot group will hate it.
PBS homogenizes the time. The number 13 pilot in a base will have the same suckey schedule as the number 88 pilot in the base.
The pairings fed is critical. Unless you (your pilot union) have absolute and total control over the pairings being built, then the company will build the pairing and drive the solution.
We had a PBS mafia within the CAL pilot group that was led by former Peoples Express pilots from our NC. They told us PBS was an "improvement". It was marketed as such because of all the fancy bells and whistles.
None of that stuff means anything unless you can out smart the guys JUNIOR to you. Seniority is gone once the junior pilots figure out how to trick the computer into giving them your trips. management doesn't care who flies the trip, but the system should be re-named: BITSBS. But In The Seat Bidding System. Because that's what it really does, puts a butt in the seat, without regard to seniority.
This, along with prior post looks like the best explanation of how PBS actually works that I've seen so far. Kudos to you !Originally Posted by baseball
It is my experience that the top ten percent and the bottom ten percent of line holders do OK under PBS. The very senior can protect themselves. The very junior can steal flying from those not smart enough to crack the code.
The rest of the 80 percent of the pilot group will hate it.
PBS homogenizes the time. The number 13 pilot in a base will have the same suckey schedule as the number 88 pilot in the base.
The pairings fed is critical. Unless you (your pilot union) have absolute and total control over the pairings being built, then the company will build the pairing and drive the solution.
We had a PBS mafia within the CAL pilot group that was led by former Peoples Express pilots from our NC. They told us PBS was an "improvement". It was marketed as such because of all the fancy bells and whistles.
None of that stuff means anything unless you can out smart the guys JUNIOR to you. Seniority is gone once the junior pilots figure out how to trick the computer into giving them your trips. management doesn't care who flies the trip, but the system should be re-named: BITSBS. But In The Seat Bidding System. Because that's what it really does, puts a butt in the seat, without regard to seniority.
