Yeah PBS is awesome. Here's what it did to me this month, and it's common with the bottom quarter of lineholders at SkyWest. I have a 2 day paring tacked on to a 4 day paring, all forced by the PBS optimizer... Yea, 6 days in row, oh joy!!! but I noticed it was only covering 5 days on the monthly line. What the...? So on closer examination of the parings the first one, a 2 day shows at 08:O5 am, 7 legs later finishes at 20:30. After a 12 hour duty day and a 9 hour overnight, shows at 04:40 on day two for one leg and a release at 06:20. Then later that same day (9 hours and 10 minutes to be exact) at 15:30 I show for a 4 day with the first day having 4 legs and a finish right about midnight. I've got more than 9 hours between trips so it's legal, and nothing I can do about it. Hopefully at ASA you can implement tighter controls and better oversight of PBS. At SkyWest we have no say. For us all we can do is hopefully drop things with Sked+ (doubtful with only 3 EMB CA reserves in LAX) or use personal leave (User/vacation) to fix things PBS forces on us.
PBS = Pilots Being Screwed