Originally Posted by Sunvox

Definitely not how it works. Here's my normal monthly bid:

AWARD 2 day trips L--
AWARD 1 day trips L-
AWARD PUJ L
AVOID 752
AVOID 753
AWARD IRO N
AVOID IRO
AWARD FRA H++
AWARD ZUR H+
AWARD MUC H+
AWARD 764 H


I get mostly Frankfurt flying pilot trips and usually one IRO maybe a PUJ rarely a 1 day and never a 2 day.

The PBS logic doesn't go top down in a bid it looks at your 7 pools. Putting L-- first followed by an AVOID "FREEZES" those trips in that pool. PBS then goes through your bid and uses the highest pool trip it can to complete your line. If you look at the reason report you can really see how the logic is working. In my case my pools look like this:

H++ = FRA flying
H+ = ZUR and MUC flying
H = other 764 flying
N = 764 IRO
L = PUJ
L- = 1 day trips
L-- = 2 day trips


A key element to the logic is to use the AWARD followed by AVOID to FREEZE trips in the desired pool.


Did that answer your question or did I misinterpret what you were asking?


P.S. I fancied myself pretty good with PBS, but this month I got a COMPLETION MODE award because I had too high an opinion of my seniority. For the last two months I had no trouble building a purely 764 line so I bid with AVOID all 75 flying and PBS couldn't make it happen so I got hosed big time . . . ah well c'est la vie