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Preferential Bidding System (PBS) Subcommittee

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What Does This Subcommittee Do?
The PBS Subcommittee works with the company and the Inflight Crew Planning Department to maintain the company’s preferential bidding system and oversee the bidding and bid award processes.  The Subcommittee represents and advocates for the MEC position in matters pertaining to bidding and the preferential bidding system.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
  • Regularly communicate with and provide updates to the MEC Scheduling Chairperson on the activities of the subcommittee
  • In advance of the bidding period each month, communicate with the MEC Scheduling Committee Vice Chairperson—Pairing Construction to understand changes in pairings for upcoming months and how Flight Attendant bids might be affected
  • Keep members knowledgeable about changes to the preferential bidding system, common mistakes and errors, misunderstandings about the system, and other topics of interest through the MEC Communications Chairperson
  • Provide assistance to Flight Attendants through base sits, one-on-one training sessions, and telephone support during the monthly bidding window and as requested by the MEC or LECs
  • Communicate with the MEC Reserve Chairperson to understand the needs and challenges of Flight Attendants holding reserve schedules and provide bid assistance
Why Would I Contact This Committee?

The PBS Subcommittee is available to help you with:

  • Bidding through the PBS system
  • Questions about bid awards

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Who Do I Contact?

For assistance, contact any member of the PBS Subcommittee.  Contact information is below for your convenience.

PBS Subcommittee

Steve Poynter
Rebecca Asbell
Adam Clarey
pbs@afaalaska.org

You can also ask questions by emailing PBS.QA@alaskaair.com.

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Subcommittee News

View the PBS Subcommittee news archives

[L-AS] November 2018 PBS Bid Awards

Posted: October 15, 2018

This message is for Legacy Alaska Airlines (L-AS) Flight Attendants Trouble with the November 2018 PBS bid award The Master Executive Council (MEC) was informed on Friday, October 12, 2018, that the wrong one-position (“D”) pairing file was loaded into NAVBLUE PBS.  That file did not contain all the one-position flights—in excess of 1000—requiring staffing […]

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[pmAS] Follow Up to April Bid Re-Award

Posted: March 15, 2018

This message is for pre-merger Alaska Airlines Flight Attendants On Tuesday, March 13, AFA released information about the April bid re-award that recently took place.  The initial need for a re-award came about after several bid protests were filed based on the original April line awards.  After further investigation, the protests were found to be […]

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April Bid Re-Award and Trading Timeline

Posted: March 13, 2018

This message is for pre-merger Alaska Airlines Flight Attendants On Monday, March 12, management advised AFA that a programming error was discovered with the new user interface of NavBlue PBS.  The error, related to the programming of the “Duty On” preference in the new user interface, resulted in trips being awarded incorrectly to Flight Attendants […]

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[AS] PBS Update – May 2017

Posted: May 3, 2017

A message from your AFA PBS Committee There have been a few recent changes with PBS with more to come!  We’ll talk more about that in a moment but first we’ll cover the basics.  Please read along and hopefully you’ll have a better understanding of our bidding program. First, a reminder that the PBS Committee is here […]

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Bidding Deadline Extended

Posted: April 7, 2017

We are aware of some issues with some Flight Attendants not being able to submit their bids.  This is related to a change in terminology with ‘Forget’ and ‘Redo’.  Another issue discovered is being able to ‘Forget’ one type of bid line is not working properly.  The new functionality is designed to maximize the number […]

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