Originally Posted by
19hundo
Baffled at what? That me focusing on passing training was more important to me than learning how to bid? Like I said, now that I'm done with training and the fire hose is over, I've been asking captains questions and reading up on PBS. Yes it is my life I'm bidding on, but I had to earn that right first!
He's just trying to help you...
Anyway, now that you have time I would suggest bidding like you want a line, and even put in some pairing/line properties. Don't bother with specific pairings right now, that's not helpful to the learning process (you're already doing something similar with your reserve line bid anyway). In layer 6, put Avoid reserve. Put your desired Reserve lines in L7.
Here's the important part - when bids come out, even if you just get reserve again, call the PBS helpline and review your bid. Tell them that you are junior, but trying to learn PBS. Ask them to review your bid and offer suggestions. You want to know exactly what you're doing when senior enough to hold a line.
When I was pretty junior, I was awarded better lines than people senior to me all the time since I took the effort to learn PBS by studying the manual and calling the help line each month after my bid was awarded. I can't tell you how many times I've seen even our pilots bid with no clue what they're doing (the FAs are definitely the worst at it though.).