Originally Posted by Mudhen200

PBS is not in the mix right now.
2 yrs from now, when we go into formal section 6 negotiations, I'm sure management will ask for it.
The next round of negotiations could drag on for years. So my best guess is that we will start the PBS discussion about 5 or 6 years from now.
After we have discussed it for several years, the answer will still be no. Never. No way.
Our schedule flexibility is very very bad. Always has been but is continually getting worse. Giving our management and crew scheds PBS would be the worst thing that I can imagine around here. You might as well just agree to fly 1000 hrs a year and never get a day off you need. PBS under our management would destroy any remaining QOL a Alaska pilot has.