trafficinsight
Well-Known Member
There is only one PBS strategy, you bid for what you want and PBS gives you what they need.
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There is only one PBS strategy, you bid for what you want and PBS gives you what they need.
Roger Roger
Bottom of the list
The benefit of being 40 from the bottom is these decisions are made for me
///AMG
Well-Known Member
I'll be glad to not manually parse 450+ lines just to give my best effort at getting a single weekend off anymore
Boris Badenov
This is no laughing matter.
I'm getting PTSD just imagining what Brown would do with PBS. Literally the stuff of nightmares, like I'm probably about to have some.
///AMG
Well-Known Member
You're welcome
Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
Remember, a significant number of people senior to you won’t take the time to learn the system properly, or even at all.
killbilly
Vocals, Lyrics, Triangle, Washboard, Kittens
This was one of the biggest surprises to me at the regional. I started getting things I wanted - not just a line but a line with weekends off and not-crappy report times and it was largely due to senior pilots not knowing how to bid.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
We have 3 practice / mock rounds of PBS in Feb/Mar before bidding goes live for April to obtain the May schedule.
If you do
1 round - 2 hrs pay
2 round - 5 hrs pay
3 round - 10 hrs pay
I think we’ll see 99% participation for the money, with the occasional guy who just forgot to bid.
Baronman
Well-Known Member
You have quite the benevolent management. 10 hours pay to play PBS 3 times? For like 30 mins work max?
Skåning
Well-Known Member
It makes you wonder how much money they are saving if they can afford to pay me $4000 to learn PBS
Roger Roger
Bottom of the list
I’m hoping some senior dudes who have done day trips for the last 15 years screw it up once, get a JFK redeye, and retire early out of rage
Hiboglossi
The Most Depressing Person
When I was new at that regional I got lines several months in a row while people senior to me got reserve for that reason.
trafficinsight
Well-Known Member
PBSTSD?
Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
/gamer[ragequit]/gamer
Autothrust Blue
"Well, on the Brasilia..."
The thing is, AOS was particularly noxious owing to the manner in which it determined, and then awarded, coverage dates.
It's possible to have a far better 'experience' with PBS. Two of the properties I've worked at thus far have been so.
trafficinsight
Well-Known Member
With line bidding I pretty much know exactly what I'm bidding for and exactly why I didn't get it.
PBS was like "Your bid goes in here and magic happens and your tears go here"
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Tell me you haven’t used PBS without telling me you haven’t used PBS.
And if you have used it and still make that statement, you’re one of those who didn’t know the logic and how to bid correctly/properly for the situation.
trafficinsight
Well-Known Member
I got pretty good at it. And of course if you're senior you might think you're really good at when in reality it's just easy mode.
Top 10 - 15% got largely what they wanted, middle 60% got ass-kickings, bottom remainder got all the stuff the middle 60% wanted but couldnt get because of the ass-kickings.
Some hyperbole, perhaps, but I'm a hard no on PBS for the rest of my career thanks. There are other plusses too.
Boris Badenov
This is no laughing matter.
Why, pray tell, do you imagine that companies are so desperate to get PBS? Perhaps it's because they have been visited by the Ghost of Christmas Future and want to help Tiny Tim? The other possibility doesn't bear thinking about, does it!? No, that's the only logical conclusion.
