Your first part on trip parking has some valid points. Your second paragraph is completely wrong. The SOT change here is an improvement that brings PBS and the swap board to the same 30 minute restriction that DBMS has long had. This has nothing to do with "jobs" and everything to do with flexibility and consistency.

I know of cases where a guy could white slip a trip that brought him to 29.20 within seven days...but that same guy could not pick up that same trip on the swap board due to the 1 hour buffer we previously had.

Likewise there are now some PBS bid awards that will be honored that otherwise would not have been. Do you really want to tell a guy "gee, I know that you bid for Trip A followed by Trip B, and prior to this change you would not have gotten them (due to being say within 45 min of 30/7) but even though now you have been awarded just what you wanted..l.I don't think that that is a good idea. I think we should go back to the way things were, with less flexibility and less opportunities for PBS to give you even more of what you want."

Also, keep in mind that bringing PBS and the Swapboard to within 30 minutes of FAR limits is something the company was very hesitant to do--they don't like the possibility of potential FAR-related trip disruptions. I figure if the company was hesitant about it, then it must be a net positive for the pilots.

In any case, this is all being done on a test basis. If the company doesn't like it, they will be free to mandate that we go back to the earlier 1 hour limits. This is actually a case of the company tolerating less "certainty" in order for the pilot group to be a bit happier. I hope we benefit from it.