GeekMaster
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Pairing generator, well, it generates pairings.
The PBS takes the pairings and awards the lines.
The two are independent of each other. For December, IIRC, the XJT pairing generator was used for the first time. Which had various solutions run, to include more productive pairings than previous. As well as higher day oof lines than before. Just ask JoeMerchant and 777forever, they'll tell you "Thanks for your pairing generator XJT".
Prior to that, the ASA pairing generator was used. Yet it was STILL the PBS system that awarded the lines.
You have to remember, the reason PBS is liked so much is because the ASA line bid system sucked. It WASN'T XJT's line bid system they're NOT the same thing. The ignorant/uneducated seem to think so, not the case.
I'm getting blue in the face here, ASA PBS for XJT pilots = concession = suck. That's just a fact, can't spin it.
I'm sorry you're getting blue in the face but there is something very valuable you're not considering here. This I no longer a comparison between flightline and your line bidding system. Your MEC is now trying to develop rules for PBS as a primary bidding system. So NOW this becomes a comparison between flightline and Smartpref.
Asa is not trying to spin THAT. I just want to make sure my MEC and all the pilots from both airlines don't trade in a great PBS system for one that doesn't work as well.