Xdashdriver, where did you get the 4% open time number from? Is it solid?

If PBS doesn't really hurt us in any substantial way (just builds our lines, etc.) and we get to go about our normal F9 way of altering everything we do to our liking, why in the world would they want it so badly?

I assert, most of our current flexibility is inherent to the inefficiencies our current system produces. The pilots are kind of like the final solution to cleaning up all the loose ends in the scheduling, which yes, costs the company money, but provides a measurable QOL factor that wouldn't be there otherwise.

PBS will suck all the inefficiencies out. If it didn't, they wouldn't want it. No matter how you slice it, we lose something, and something rather big IMO with PBS. So yeah, why not some better rates with it, if we have to swallow this pill?

Just as a quick aside: I already guarantee you based on older conversations I've had with reps, we're going to lose aggressive rsv outside window specific, sick day buy back, and trip splitting.