For American Airlines pilots

Built for the line. One app.

AskPubs answers from the manuals, contract, and regs you fly by — with the page cited. Bid Builder Beta builds your PBS bid step by step, and the AskPubs Chrome extension puts it into PBS for you. PBS Helper answers questions about your own bid, award, and standing. Seniority shows where you stand and what another seat could pay. Training puts your fleet's training prep in one place. TLDR tells you what changed in manual revisions and bulletins. TTS Beta finds you a pilot to trade a trip with. Same login, built around the pilot flying the line.

Thousands of users. Tens of thousands of queries answered.

AskPubs

Ask the books.

Manuals, contract, regs, MEL — ask in plain English and get the answer with the source cited. Code retrieves and checks the supporting passages first; AI only shapes the final wording from that evidence, and avoids guessing when support is missing.

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Bid Builder · Beta

Build your bid. Know what you can hold.

Step by step: mark your month — vacation, training, the days you want off. Find the trips you want to fly, with every trip in your package coloured by how far down the list it went last month against your number. Add a PBS fallback, and reserve if you want it. Check and send — then, on a computer, the AskPubs Chrome extension puts the whole bid into PBS: Preview shows what will change, nothing is written until you press Update, and Undo puts back what you had. It never touches your Standing Bid.

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Beta · for verified AA pilots · best on a computer

AskPubs Training

Show up ready for CQ.

Your fleet’s training in one place — AA’s own lessons, videos, and Crewcast beside drills for your flows, maneuvers, and callouts, organized the way AA actually trains: QUAL, REQUAL, CQ. Pick your fleet and seat. Everything is yours.

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Live now · all four fleets

AskPubs Seniority

Know where you stand.

Your number, your seat, and what a different one would pay — off the live roster and the awarded bid months. See who left your seat ahead of you and where they actually went, when a seat could come into reach, and what the move is worth month by month against staying put.

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New · live for all verified pilots

TLDR

Catch up on what changed.

Manual revisions, fleet bulletins, and PWG bulletins in one feed — each with what changed, when it is effective, and a link to the original. Time-limited items drop off when they expire. Filter to your fleet; unread markers keep your place on this device.

TLDR does not satisfy company or FAA reading requirements. Comply365 and Jetnet remain the systems of record.

TTS · Beta

Find someone to trade with.

Post a trip you want to drop, swap, or pick up, or a trip to lend — and see what pilots in your own bid status (base, fleet, seat, division) have posted. Tap I want this or I can help and your name, seniority number, email, and phone go to that poster, and only that poster. Posts show a seniority number, never a name; the poster's name reaches you when they reply.

TTS only puts you in touch. The trade itself still goes through the usual process.

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Beta · for verified AA pilots

What we're working toward

On the horizon.

These are not available in the app yet. Plans may change; no release dates are set.

In development

SOTA — State of the Airline

A future airline information lane. Not available to pilots yet.

What pilots are saying

Built for the line. Used on the line.

As a new-hire 737 pilot at American, AskPubs has made my transition much easier, allowing me to ask AI rather than waiting for a response from a human.

Shaun New-hire 737 pilot

AskPubs is definitely the future. An easy-to-access, real-time knowledge base that can point you in the right direction. I needed a quick MEL reference, and AskPubs told me exactly where to look in less than 5 seconds, saving valuable time in a critical predeparture phase.

Alberto AA pilot
Ask like a pilot, not a chatbot

Vague gets you hedged answers. Specific gets you the rule.

Don't ask this

"How do I read the HI117 message? I want to know how long until I time out."

No start time. No leg count. No augmentation. AskPubs can't do the math without inputs — so it hedges.

Ask this instead

"My duty day started at 0600. I have 4 legs, unaugmented. What's my max FDP and when do I time out?"

Now it has the inputs. It hands you the FAR 117 value, the CBA override if there is one, and the exact citation.

How an answer is made

Ask. Retrieve. Check. Cite.

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You ask

Plain English — it already knows your fleet, seniority, and bid context.

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It retrieves

The relevant passages from your documents — never the public internet.

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It checks

Code checks whether those passages actually fit the question before anything is written.

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AI-shaped answer

Claude molds the wording from the retrieved evidence; it does not free-answer from memory.

Security & privacy

Trust the answer. Trust where your data goes.

Where your data lives

Your manuals, contract, and regs are stored and searched on a private server we control — not uploaded to a third-party document cloud.

How answers are generated

AskPubs uses code to retrieve, route, check, and ground the answer; Claude only molds the final wording. When you ask a question, AskPubs finds the relevant passages or PBS data first and gives Anthropic's Claude only that context to compose the response — it is not allowed to answer directly from its own knowledge, and when AskPubs can't find support it is designed to say so instead of guessing. Anthropic does not train its models on data sent through its API, and we never sell your data.

Locked down

Everything is encrypted in transit. Access is limited to verified crew — confirmed by company email and employee number.

Getting in

For verified AA pilots.

It's verified, so it stays ours — only confirmed American Airlines pilots get in.

1

Enter your AA employee number — checked against the pilot roster.

2

Confirm your name.

3

Verify with a one-time code sent to your @aa.com address.

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