IF PBS did cause these furloughs there is a way to get these guys back to work. Pull out PBS from the contract. Remember we have a year from signing to excercise that option. At the moment nobody really knows if PBS is going to help us build the schedules we want. I say give it a few months, put it to a vote and then pull the plug if that is what the pilot group wants, if this pilot group can ever grow a set and figure out as a team what it wants/needs.

Okay so we give up block or better but who's getting paid block or better anyway? Only today I was over block by 30 minutes due to a wait for an airstart. The door was closed and brake released iaw ground personel instructions. Tonight I noticed that someone has changed our ACARS times in CrewTrac to match a normal block time. What's up with that? Who is authorized to change our ACARS times? It seems our company is doing everything they can not to pay block or better. How dishonest are these people and how much effort is it going to take me to monitor every leg and every pay check to make sure I get paid my rightful block or better.

I do suspect that PBS was the straw that broke the camels back with regard to the furloughs. It seems likely there were many other factors at work. I've no evidence of this. It's just a hunch.

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