PBS Bid Optimization for Airline Pilots

Clear your minimum.
Keep your life.

MinLine reads your monthly bid package and builds ranked PBS bid groups engineered so that whatever the system awards, you still hit your credit minimum — in the fewest days away from home.

BID GROUP 1: - 11 days of work — fewest that guarantee 66:48 - 4-day on 2 or 3 - 2-day on 27 Limit 1 (24:18 min): 4711/2 Su 2222 - 4/23:19 - 1048/2023 4494/3 Mo 2222 - 4/23:57 - 1112/2300 …whichever one you're awarded, the month still pays.

How it works

Three steps, once a month, in the bidding window.

1

Upload your bid package

Drop in the monthly PDF. MinLine parses every pairing — legs, layovers, credit, pay, report and release times — in seconds.

2

Set your rules

Days off, minimum credit, cities to avoid, commute times, when your kids go to bed. Your permanent preferences carry month to month.

3

Bid with a guarantee

Get ranked bid groups whose fallback clusters are engineered so any award still reaches your monthly minimum. Copy them straight into PBS.

Built around what actually matters

Not just legal lines — good months.

Guaranteed minimum

Every bid group's fallback trips are chosen so the worst-case award still clears your credit target. No more hand-checking twenty combinations.

Fewest days at work

The optimizer finds the minimum number of duty days that hits your number — and shows what one extra day would buy you before you give it away.

Time-at-home value score

Every trip is scored on pay per hour away from home — where a morning with your family before a late report counts, and being home before bedtime counts double.

Reads like your scratchpad

Output in the compact line notation pilots already use — pairing, legs per day, credit, report/release, layovers — ready to paste anywhere.

Founders

Built by a line pilot and an engineer, tested on real bid months.

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Ryan Young

Founder · Product & Engineering

Ryan builds data-driven software products. He turned a captain's hand-built bidding system into MinLine's parsing and optimization engine.

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Wil Kauffman

Co-founder · Line Pilot

Wil is an active A320 captain at a major U.S. airline. MinLine encodes the bidding strategy he refined over years of monthly bid packages.

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