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Old 01-06-2026 | 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by BeanBurritoFlyr
Care to elaborate?
He developed the excel spreadsheet the company uses as our “PBS” solver. It’s a big pile of poop that violates seniority every which way possible. When you go to arbitration and win, they change the solver to violate you in a different way.

Good luck with that guy on your payroll. It doesn’t mean good things.
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Old 01-07-2026 | 01:58 PM
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Originally Posted by JustWatching
He developed the excel spreadsheet the company uses as our “PBS” solver. It’s a big pile of poop that violates seniority every which way possible. When you go to arbitration and win, they change the solver to violate you in a different way.

Good luck with that guy on your payroll. It doesn’t mean good things.
basically we are in desperate need of a real PBS system that management cannot just manipulate and change whenever they want. of course PBS has different inputs, etc., but with the current "PBS" that mavis created, the Company has total control to change the coding whenever they want.
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Old 01-09-2026 | 05:57 AM
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Originally Posted by captnate702
basically we are in desperate need of a real PBS system that management cannot just manipulate and change whenever they want. of course PBS has different inputs, etc., but with the current "PBS" that mavis created, the Company has total control to change the coding whenever they want.
Thats the whole point of PBS. The company controls it to fit their needs. PBS was not created to help crewmembers, it is sold to airlines to help the bottom line.
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Old 01-09-2026 | 01:30 PM
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Originally Posted by DirkDiggler9999
Thats the whole point of PBS. The company controls it to fit their needs. PBS was not created to help crewmembers, it is sold to airlines to help the bottom line.
agree but it is different when instead of Navblue your management created their own “pbs” and can change the coding to it whenever they want. Not just tweak with the “levers” of LCW, ALV, OT%, etc. But literally change the entire coding of the system whenever they want.

no airline can just Willy nilly change the coding to Navblue if they don’t like the solution and adjusting theLCW or ALV doesn’t do the trick
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Old 01-09-2026 | 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by captnate702
agree but it is different when instead of Navblue your management created their own “pbs” and can change the coding to it whenever they want. Not just tweak with the “levers” of LCW, ALV, OT%, etc. But literally change the entire coding of the system whenever they want.

no airline can just Willy nilly change the coding to Navblue if they don’t like the solution and adjusting theLCW or ALV doesn’t do the trick
Maybe a dumb question, but I have heard your guys refer to your PBS as an Excel spreadsheet. I always assumed that was just a way of implying its limitations. Is it actually built with MS office applications?
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Old 01-09-2026 | 04:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Lost Decade
Maybe a dumb question, but I have heard your guys refer to your PBS as an Excel spreadsheet. I always assumed that was just a way of implying its limitations. Is it actually built with MS office applications?
Yes! The solver is 100% Excel. The UI is not. When I save my bid for the upcoming month I receive an Excel document. It's not an exaggeration and as I understand it, Isaac Mavis is the father of it.
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Old 01-09-2026 | 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Vwaste
Yes! The solver is 100% Excel. The UI is not. When I save my bid for the upcoming month I receive an Excel document. It's not an exaggeration and as I understand it, Isaac Mavis is the father of it.
I'm amazed that's even possible with MS office.

How many different parameters can you control in your bid?
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Old 01-10-2026 | 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Vwaste
Yes! The solver is 100% Excel. The UI is not. When I save my bid for the upcoming month I receive an Excel document. It's not an exaggeration and as I understand it, Isaac Mavis is the father of it.
most of SCX’s operation is ran off of excel spreadsheets so this tracks. Was once told by an ops agent they run the MSP hub off a spreadsheet and it’s too much work to do gate changes so that’s why you’ll sit for 40 min while aircraft who land after you go right to the gate
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Old 01-11-2026 | 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by iLikeMoose
A merger with Allegiant has been "imminent" since before I got hired in 2022.
Told ya...

You guys need to get more in tune with the rumor mill! Anyways, cheers, welcome to Allegiant, and here's to a kick ass JCBA.
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Old 01-11-2026 | 12:29 PM
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www.SoaringForLeisure.com

Will this connection make it any more enticing to fly for Allegiant, if and when they finally get a TA?
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