PBS bidding made easy
 

Hi all,

Virtually every airline uses some form of Preferential Bidding these days to create their schedules, and in my experience, virtually all of them are difficult to both use and understand.

Now retired from SkyWest, I spent 17 years there working with the PBS bidding software and became intimately familiar with how it worked. To this day, I still run monthly training sessions in the Seattle/Tacoma area, even though I retired more than a year ago.

I've spent the last 4 months creating an easy to read and understand guide to bidding that makes this otherwise daunting program easy to understand. These first two books are bidding guides for the PBS software made by AOS (Advanced Optimization System). This software is used at both SkyWest and at American airlines, so the books are specific (at the moment) to those two airlines. In the upcoming months, I hope to be able to produce a similar book to help those who use NavBlue for bidding, though at present I'm not anywhere near as familiar as I am with the OO and AA versions.

For anyone who might want a copy, they are available on Amazon. You'll find they make the whole confusing PBS world much easier to understand.


SkyWest edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BW35YF15


American airlines edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6W7C2CJ

I'm reading it now. What's the difference between SKW and AA editions?