AskPubs PBS Import — privacy

Chrome extension · applies to build 0.1.48 and later · last updated 12 October 2026

The short version. This extension collects nothing, stores nothing about you, and sends nothing anywhere. It runs entirely inside your own browser, on one website, and the only server it ever talks to is the PBS site you are already logged into.

What it collects

Nothing. No personal information, no health or financial information, no authentication information, no messages, no location, no browsing history, no activity analytics.

What it stores

Only your own bid, in Chrome's own local extension storage on your computer. All of it stays on this machine, and removing the extension removes it:

A record of each import — the lines it added and the lines it replaced — so Undo can put back exactly what you had and nothing else.
A snapshot of your bid as it stood just before an import, so the panel can tell what changed.
The read-back the extension takes after each import (what PBS shows on your bid), and the last result, so the panel can show it again after you reload the page.
Where an Undo has got to, so an Undo cut short can finish without doing anything twice.
The ids of the reserve bids this extension added, so a later import changes only those and never a reserve bid you typed in PBS yourself.

None of it ever leaves your machine, and none of it is sent anywhere.

What it sends, and where

To pilotpbs.aa.com — the bid lines you reviewed and approved, using the session you are already signed into. This is the whole purpose of the extension.
To AskPubs — nothing. The extension has no AskPubs server address in it and makes no request to one. Moving a bid in either direction is a copy and a paste that you do.
To anyone else — nothing. There are no analytics, no telemetry, no error reporting, no third-party services of any kind.

Where it runs

Only on https://pilotpbs.aa.com/*. That is the extension's single host permission, declared in its manifest and enforced by Chrome. It cannot read or act on any other site — not your email, not your company intranet, not any other tab, and not AskPubs.

What it can do to your bid

It makes your monthly bid match the Bid Builder bid you pasted: layer by layer it keeps the lines that already match, removes the ones that differ and adds what is new — reserve layers included. It never touches your Standing Bid, carry-in trips, or lines (reserve ones too) you typed in PBS yourself.
Preview shows you every change first, and it writes nothing until you press Update.
Undo puts back exactly the bid you had before the import.
It never sees or handles your password. You sign into PBS yourself.

Permissions, and why

storage — to remember what an import changed, so Undo is exact. Local only.
host_permissions: https://pilotpbs.aa.com/* — to show its panel on the PBS page and to write the lines you approved. It is scoped to that one site deliberately.

Who this is from, and what it is not

AskPubs is an independent tool built for line pilots. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by any airline. PBS is operated by your employer; this extension simply fills in a form on it for you, the way you would by hand.

Changes and contact

If this ever changes — and collecting nothing is a deliberate design choice, not an accident — this page changes with it and the date above moves. Questions go through the AskPubs app.