Mesa 3.0
10-21-2016, 05:11 PM
#1361
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The one advantage of paper bidding is the extra pilot it requires. But I like the high degree of specificity you can put into your PBS bid. You want 9 a.m. starts with no landings in OKC while overnighting in ICT and the 3rd, 5th, 14th, and 27th off? Go for it? Paper bidding offers a lot less control, maybe just the days off you want and a few preferable overnights.
10-21-2016, 05:30 PM
#1364
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Joined APC: Mar 2016
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Paper bids have unstacking too. If you are junior you are working thanksgiving. Paper just doesn't put it front and center like pbs does. And with pbs as a senior pilot I don't have to take crap pairings just to get the days off I want.
10-21-2016, 05:36 PM
#1365
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How do you wind up with unstacking on paper bids? Well I never had paper bids, so can't speak from experience, but I never thought such a thing could exist with paper...
10-21-2016, 05:47 PM
#1366
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Unstacking is strictly forcing the bottom X number of lines to work specific dates. So for paper if you have to have X number of lines working a specific date you build them that way. So wether pbs or paper you either can or cannot hold off date Y.
10-21-2016, 05:50 PM
#1367
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Joined APC: Aug 2014
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True but with the SAP at PSA you can still hold the day off via work rules.
10-21-2016, 07:06 PM
#1369
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Yes, you PSA guys have a management team that somehow forgot to put a tight grip on SAP and actually let it do what it was meant to do... You all talk about it like its the best thing ever. I can see it being a huge QOL item.
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