Originally Posted by Dave Fitzgerald

Not many of you were around for Paper hard line bidding. It got a lot better with trip trading--which was rolled out very slowly. The company was worried they couldn't fill trips when someone traded out of it. They quickly figured out that they can just restrict the trip trading--to the point many people find it next to useless.

Anyway, the real reason the company is pushing hard, was mentioned earlier. It's hugely manpower negative. At the time, I think the bankruptcy contract, ALPA put PBS as 20-22% manpower negative. Hard to compare because so many other variables changed with it. Meaning, it will require a lot fewer employees to cover the same flying. From a union stand point, fewer members, less dues, less money.

Bottom line is, with PBS you will work more days. Paper bidding you got more days off with conflict drops, but we didn't have the trip trading system then or what the FA's have now. I'm guessing it will be even more manpower negative for the FA's, and make min time workers QOL less.

Can't really compare pilots schedules to FA's. We have FAR and contractual time limits, they, largely do not. Most of the FA's I have talked to about it, do not understand PBS, but I think AFA leadership hasn't done a very good job explaining it either. They DO understand it will mean more work, for the same pay--meaning essentially a pay cut/hour.