Originally Posted by Sniper

2) no current US mainline carrier (the kind of airline you'd want to work for for a career, like BA) has ever voluntarily chosen PBS - it's either forced on them in bankruptcy (the pilots had no choice), or the company instituted it when the airline was non-Union, so the pilots ... had no choice.

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't. BA will always want PBS, so, if you ever want to dance with the devil later, the BA pilots will always know they have a willing dance partner in BA.