Well if you remember back when we first got PBS, the bid preference was used to bid away from LCA. Remember recovery was so awful nobody wanted to bid a trip that would have a LCA. It was a bad deal that anybody could be "stuck" with (if an LCA came onto your trip later.)

It cost us precious negotiating capital, your money, to turn a bad deal into a good deal so that nobody got "stuck" with it.

So now let's just give it all back? Is that what this is about? Then why did we work so hard for this QOL improvement to begin with? If it affects such a small % of pilots, as you say, then leave it alone.

Oh, and AMR and UAL got this abortion of a deal during their bankruptcy. What, are we pattern bargaining in reverse now? Im sure they are looking to change, not look at it as a standard.