I think people are missing the point here. ASA management have always had control of the building of pairings. Contract says they can build anything between a day line to a 4 day. In line bidding the company also has control of how they build the whole month. With PBS the company NO LONGER builds lines. All pilots have control of the month. Now #1 guy starts off with his parameters and the system builds his schedule. By the end guy whatever is left they will receive.

If you don't like your line you can DROP, TRADE, & PICKUP. You can try to DROP, TRADE or PICKUP anything from 1 leg to a whole 4 day. Once your line is built it's no different than it was with line bidding.

As for credit the company has a cover sheet each month that has the amount they would like. For Feb. they had 65 -105 credit. You can bid anywhere between that. You can work hard or not at all.

The amount of lines has drastically increased at ASA with a 1 reserve to 8 lines.