Make sure you tell that to management; they'll be glad for us to willingly give up whatever leverage we have going into the next negotiations.

If the company starts mixing the VX/AS route structure the pairings will probably end up being better on average. AS has way too many East Coast destinations with only one or two flights a day. If they can mix and match some of the routes the pairings should improve.

Either way PBS isn't going to fix pairing construction and given AS ALPA's negotiating track record I'm doubtful that whatever PBS language they do negotiation won't be a Sheet Sandwich..