Originally Posted by Regularguy

I would like to see the final trip pool of this bid. It seems to violate the bidding process I've personally seen.

This should be the logic:

Award work L-- puts all he trips into the trip pool at L--
Avoid 1... All of these will be ignored because this bidder has already moved all the trips into his/her trip pool.
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Award work L- These trip are already in pool at L-- can they be changed to L-- from L-?

Personally what I have found and many other "bid gurus" have said the same:

Rule 1 - Put all you avoids before awarding work.
Rule 2 - Put all you sets before awarding work.
Rule 3 - Begin awarding work with H++ and such. If you want something make it a H++.

The problem with putting something like avoid bunky in your bid line after awarding work is this; it's already in your trip pool and you will be assigned it if the solver needs to.

Rule 4 - After building your "dream" bid group start building new bid groups by copying it to a new group and adding progressively the trips you would prefer to not fly to the pool in the new group. Example if you really don't want to fly bunky but will, don't add them until the final bid group. If the trip is in your group's pool it can be used no matter how many times you put "avoid."

But in the end the solver can award stuff you really wanted to make lines for those jr. to you. This is why it is essential to use the H++ for the trips you really want. If you put a trip L-- and the jr pilot put put it H++ you can be assigned another L-- trip while that jr pilot got the H++ one even though you really wanted it.