I keep seeing people predicting that the company will never implement QS but just drag things out into and through section 6. Personally I think that's just ridiculous. The company has motivation to get QS done in a timely manner. Yes, getting sick lookback back is one driving factor. But I think an even bigger driver is having a way to quickly and efficiently cover trips with minimal crew scheduling handling. How many flights are delayed, or even cancelled, because pilots are sitting on hold for an hour+ just to talk to a scheduler to get an IA? IA's drive probably several hundred phone calls a day (from people who eventually get the awards and from ones who miss out) that bog down the phone lines and take up crew schedulers' time. The company would love to get rid of auto-accept on slips, and this is their first bite at that apple. Plus I'm no expert but I can't imagine that QS programming would be all that extensive. It's basically a GS that pays even if under the trigger and you just remove the auto accept/auto ack options from the slip request input. I get that it's not just a simple copy/paste/tweak of the GS slip step programming but still it's not like it's a complete reinvention of the wheel. Everything I've heard points to Q2 2026 for QS, and it wouldn't surprise me to see it even towards the end of Q1.