Originally Posted by
Nevets
AdOpt sorts the lines for us, if you want to use that feature.
Sorting lines isn't enough. You still have to make decisions/compromises about which pre-built line best meets your needs. Bidding on the pairings allows you to build the optimum schedule for you with the remaining available pairings.
Yeah, I was just replying to someone who didn't like line bidding because he didn't want to look through 300 lines. Not all line bidding systems and work rules are the same. I have never sorted through lines because I have adopt sort them for me according to the preferences I select.
Originally Posted by
xjtguy
And the standard point would be used;
Line bidding sucked the way ASA used to do it. So prefbiddig is better than what was used before.
However, just like many XJT pilots don't know about flightline, an vast majority of ASA pilots DON'T know about the line bid work rules on the ERJ side.
It isn't too different from what we had before except your trip trading rules are much more liberal. Close enough? Oh yeah, you have add pay for picking up during vacation where you've conflicted out a couple of other trips and bad day, worse day. We know very well about conflict bidding. It's how we are able to extend vacations with Flightline as well. SmartPref will not allow this sort of conflict if you are constrained.
Constraints in a tough month could get into the upper echelons very easily with SmartPref system. The hype is work rules can change this. Problem is that if you write rules for this and restrict it, there is no resolution for this if a large stack occurs except to let it go higher. (Basically waive rules you've fought for) There is NO safety valve except higher global constraints. Just because you can see it doesn't make it suck any less.
Actually it's a lot more than add pay and bad day worse day trades. And my understanding is that flight line does NOT bid into conflicts with your vacation day and therefore dropping those trips into open time, like our line bidding your comparing it too. Anyway, smartpref doesn't work like that either but you can maximize your vacation even if you're in the constrained group.