Working for Delta may be the incentive for this 43 year resident to move North. Me thinks the path to upgrade leads to New York, or Detroit.

PBS is good at making the lower 90% of schedules suck. At first you will not notice, you will be happy just to be here. But as time goes on you understand why some people make the difficult choice to commute. When you consider commuting for QOL from Atlanta, that says something.

ALPA fixed some serious issues with the FAR 117 negotiations that take effect in September. I'm going to give it a month or three to see how those pan out into line flying. But, something has to be done to avoid 21 days with 2 off schedules that PBS can crank out (ask about "coverage awards" in indoc). The 5:15 Average Daily Guarantee will help.

For comparison though, my father never flew under a contract that paid a 7 hour minimum day. That kind of provision forces the Company to schedule efficiently rather than the 30 hour breaks at an out station, red eye 11 hour red eye and 23:59 Duty In shenanigans that PBS software sees as optimal.