You still have your line completion and integration to work through. Those are crap shoots and if a pairing fits, there you go. NO say over it. ASA guys like to complain about the award time but I remember under line bidding guys getting ****ed because they never knew what would happen with integration. PBS is not the evil you've been led to believe. What ASA pilots have is not truly PBS in the sense that CAL pilots have. We have something akin to weekly line bidding. If its available and it doesn't conflict with your other choices, it is your's. Your team is preaching timelyness instead of quality. The company is salivating at the chance to get what your team has proposed. It is a fooking gift!

One way to knock a few days of this process is for First Officers to give up the ability to not fly with certain Captains. I'm not terribly excited about the idea but it is likely worth three days to the whole process.