Originally Posted by Left Handed

Everything paid peanuts said is technically true. However think about this. The 1 to 15% tier get mostly what they want. The 15 to 40% tier get a some of what they want, and the last 40% to the bottom tier don't get what they want. Peanuts has it right in that if you give it a parameter and it can't fill it, it ignores it. Transition conflict would be eliminated, and vacation dropping touching trips would go away. The company would never allow the union to run PBS. However the biggest problem with PBS is how we build pairings. We have so many 18 hour four day pairings. If you told PBS "I want max pay" it would build you 4 four day trips and a single day trip of four hours. ( 17 days working in a 30 day month ). You would get paid 76 hours. That's max pay. If you want to days off, it's not going to give you any free soft time. So it would build 4 four day trips (to 14 days off) at 72 hours. That's max days off. Yes, there are outlier trips for more credit, but not many. Remember when upgrade stops, 50% of the captains and 50% of the first officers will be on the bottom half of each list (duh, I know). They will hardly get anything they want, while the company enjoys massive staffing efficiency. in order to make PBS work for us we would need to ask for a six hour Min day, or min 15 days off per month. PBS is simply not good for the pilot group, and the company would never agree to any restrictions that would help us out. Even though I'm middle of the pack, I think it's a bad deal all around. I enjoy turning one week of vacation into almost 3 weeks.

Originally Posted by A320ULCC

I copied this from another thread. It is not just an isolated upgrade in LGA md80 that was reported before.

"A 2014 Delta hire that dove over from Airtran after southwest bought them held 717 captain today, while his counterparts that didn't leave still can't hold Atlanta FO at southwest."

Originally Posted by Alphafloor

Then I would rather get nothing🖕

Originally Posted by jyristrandman

Then all sides are happy

Originally Posted by Alphafloor

Yep, I'm perfectly happy flying 35 to 45 hours a month and getting paid for 90. I was planning on naming my new 38 foot Bertram either "SOFT TIME" or "TRANSITION CONFLICT". BTW you're gonna be a real busy guy the first week of next month😀

Originally Posted by Judge Smails

The bottom 50% barely gets what they want with line bidding anyway. Our current line bidding blows (blasphemous to say, I know). Even if you're senior, good luck avoiding blocks of six days on, and if you want ALL weekends off, it ain't happening. But hey, transition is great for the top 25% and those four days off really help you recover from the six on you just did.

Originally Posted by Judge Smails

The bottom 50% barely gets what they want with line bidding anyway. Our current line bidding blows (blasphemous to say, I know). Even if you're senior, good luck avoiding blocks of six days on, and if you want ALL weekends off, it ain't happening. But hey, transition is great for the top 25% and those four days off really help you recover from the six on you just did.