Originally Posted by Herkflyr

We already have a good example of this, and have for years. It's called PBS. The company staffs the airline, publishes the bid packages and runs PBS.

THEN they pass the preliminary bid awards to ALPA for review and approval. Often times ALPA will reject the bid run and say "do over." Eventually all awards are approved and posted.

Using the logic of the naysayers, we should just let the company run whatever PBS solution they wish, tell the pilots to eat the sh!t sandwich, then do a post award review and award penalty pay to any pilot harmed through a bad award.

No thanks. I'd rather have a better life on a constant basis, than perhaps get an occasional bonus payment (weeks or months later) amidst scheduling shortcomings. If ALPA is part of a greater overall operation, that's not a bad thing either.