PBS...... I think they are trying position themselves for when/if PBS goes live. If it thins out the pilot group enough they can put more pilots on the street. What makes no sense is that I think it's a pointless position to take. Because other airlines using PBS with less block hours then we do, have a higher pilot to block hr ratio then we do. I do believe that ALPA knows the truth already, before we got furloughed ALPA was OFFICIALLY saying that they were working with ASA to avoid furlough but I was lucky enough to run into someone in ALPA that warned me FIRMLY to not buy a house I was looking at until AFTER winter. He was right... I was furloughed with the 1st group and would have been in a bad spot if I bought the house. ALPA has been working too closely with ASA to not know what is going on about staffing in my opinion. If you want to know the truth, you just have to find someone in ALPA that will tell you the truth, they are there.