Originally Posted by disillusioned

Our vacation policies still suck. You have to submit how much vacation you want per day a month before the bid. So this month I used 7 vacation days at 2.5 per day (17.5 hours) But I have no idea how much PBS is going to require for my line. Since PBS required 87 hours this month, I now had to work 70 hours in 23 days. I missed my layer one trips by a couple hours and had my bid drop to layer 5 by 1 hour. Would I have preferred to take an extra hour of vacation and kept my higher layer trips? Yep but I don't have that option because I have no idea what the hell PBS is going to require with our lovely global solution.

We need either a set amount of hours in our bid, (even a defined range would be fine) or PBS needs to globalize in reverse seniority. It sucks to see all my trips awarded to less senior pilots because PBS required less hours when it got down to their bid. Vacation is pointless if you have to just work extra hours the rest of the month. Of course this all just boils down to proper staffing which will never happen.

And even if I could use less vacation hours by bidding reserve, I would never volunteer for the mental abuse that is our reserve pool.

Originally Posted by doug_or

Nothing official yet, but without the PDX Alaska flying we only have the occasional UAL RON in PDX, so there is a good chance the base will go all 175.

Originally Posted by Nevets

Are you talking about day at a time vacation? Do you also get to bid a whole week of vacation more than a month in advance? Wouldn't it just be better to always use 4 hours per vacation day then?


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Originally Posted by disillusioned

PM sent. I'm more than happy give some advice to help out.

Originally Posted by IFLYPLANEZBRO

Is there a way to tell what the minimum line credit needed is? I've been getting the trips I want for the most part but I want less hours. I just don't know how to bid for less.

Originally Posted by ready4takeoff

Yeah I was wondering if there would still be CRJ based crews there after the transition. Besides SEA and PDX does it look like any other bases will go all 175 or for the mean time does it look like the other CRJ bases should hold up? Thanks for the info

Originally Posted by Squallrider

doubtful any other ones will go all ERJ, Pdx and SEA were small bases

Originally Posted by word302

There is an awful lot of Delta flying out of SEA and PDX for them to go 175 only. There is almost no chance of that happening. Maybe 1, but not both.

Originally Posted by Cruz5350

Excuse my ignorance I'm not on the CRJ or based out West, but PDX CRJ is actually starting trips on the Delta side out of PDX?

Originally Posted by Alex14

I believe it's just Seattle.