Question for Virgin crews?
On the Jeppesen/Carmen website I noticed that Virgin is using Carmen systems for their monthly bidding. I wonder if someone could share with me an overview of the general satisfaction - or lack thereof - of the system with me. I fly for Continental and we've been using Carmen for monthly bidding for about a year. It's been an unmitigated disaster for about 70% of the seniority list who've seen their monthly days off decrease dramatically under PBS vs. line bidding.
I'm not sure if it's Carmens inferior software, or Continentals staffing shortages that are causing this dissatisfaction and am interested in hearing a Virgin pilots perspective on their PBS system.
Thanks,
Glassos