So ASA's PBS Couldn't Build Me A Schedule...It Dumps Me On Reserve...WTF

[Skippy]

enhance ur schedule- pure and simple

 

[OCP]

I had vacation in July, only needed two 4 day trips and I was FORCED on reserve. Went to the ALPA office directly to see if I messed up my bid somehow. I was told I did NOT mess up my bid, but that I was FORCED on reserve because I was so junior and for July reserve was required to be at least 12%. I said WTF
?!? And it was explained to me that 7 other pilots senior to me were ALSO forced on reserve because the min reserve percentage starts at the bottom of the seniority list and works upward. It doesn't matter if you have 70 credits BEFORE the bid and only need 5, if you are in the bottom 12% you are getting reserve.

And if you had line bidding the bottom 20% had no chance of anything and were getting reserve no matter what. What is the complaint?

 

[russtgol]

Take a stand get your stickers from Hypoxik now!!!! Don't wait..You have them backed up in a corner already!

 

[Clutch]

At least you guys get to see your crappy schedules.

The PWG and the company are right now literally flipping a coin to see whose solutions are run.... Call it in the air!!!

 

[COOPERVANE]

Call heads...........................NO TAILS !!!!.........TAILS!!!!!!!!!!!CALL TAILS!!!!!!!
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So who won?

Company I bet!!

 

[Clutch]

Call heads...........................NO TAILS !!!!.........TAILS!!!!!!!!!!!CALL TAILS!!!!!!!
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So who won?

Company I bet!!

-Heads wins!

-No, it hit the table! Doesn't count! ......... Best two out of three!

 

[cfi on the fly]

This is ridiculous. Its the 22nd of the month and I still have no idea what Im doing next month. At least with line bidding we knew what our schedule was for the majority of the month on the 15th.

I got reunions, birthdays, and summer trips that I need to either commit to or decline...

How about I just show up a couple days late for work next month?

 

[PBRstreetgang]

Who cares

Don't you have some felching to do?

 

[Clutch]

Call heads...........................NO TAILS !!!!.........TAILS!!!!!!!!!!!CALL TAILS!!!!!!!
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So who won?

Company I bet!!

Looks like the company won this round.

 

[mxaviator]

Looks like the company won this round.

Yeah they did, my schedule suuuuucks. I didn't know you could have that many single days off in a month...lol

 

[enuffalready]

happy with mine... got what i wanted

 

[Plainsman]

Wipe the sleep out of your eyes, this place is run by a short bus load of idiots!

 

[SSDD]

As a former PBS instructor at another carrier, its been my experience that when an individual's award is so out of the ordinary that they get reserve, 99% of the time its operator error. And the majority of those are because of too many constraints. A person builds so many constraints in their bid, that the program can't build them a line. Most of the time its just seniority.

Of course, as has been stated before, GIGO. You have to have reasonably decent pairings to begin with, and that's where ALPA needs to be proactive: Get to the pairings before they are loaded into PBS.

If ASA has PBS instructors, get a hold of one and go over your bid. You may find that what you wanted, and what you actually told the program you wanted are two very different things.

Then again, its ASA...

 

[CaribPilot]

I'm not gonna say it again...I BID CORRECTLY.

There was NOTHING more i couldve done...please read the original post.

 

[Oakum_Boy]

Esplain me then where is the button that does the following:

'If I'm two minutes short of the credit window, please, please for the love of Pete don't give me an extra 20hr. four-day trip, and for the sake of Zoroaster please don't put me back on reserve.'

What a piece of junk