I've talked to one of the guys working the PBS implementation. He's a line pilot and he thinks we'll like PBS once it gets up and running and everyone gets trained on how to use it...and once we absorb the "efficiencies" it'll produce. It will probably slow seniority progression a bit but with the attrition we're seeing and will see, we'll still move on up the ladder, albeit a bit slower.

I'm looking forward to PBS, honestly. Hopefully it'll make me a line holder faster. I think a lot of the crappy lines that AA sees (like the A319 in DFW...wow, those are some ugly lines) will probably get better. Those schedules are pretty inefficient and pretty much just wastes your time away from base. I've been told PBS will help "fix" that to some degree, although not to the degree that min calendar day will.