Originally Posted by
Turbosina
Of the 11 trips I bid for last month, I was awarded 10.
Then PBS pulled 9 of those trips ('replaced/ not-awarded due to coverage dates') and awarded the trips to junior guys.
Point is, it doesn't matter what your seniority can hold when PBS deliberately ignores seniority. It's got nothing to do with how you bid.
This ^^^^^ Yes you can open up your bid to more pairings but if your seniority should hold a trip, it is complete garbage that it is removed and given to someone junior.
I have got pretty good at guessing what the min required will be (just kidding, I assume it will be 88 hours) and then I make sure that I am going to get at least that. This month my line award was only 21 minutes over the min required. But that also means that I had a 19 hour 3 day removed and was awarded a 19.5 hour four day. So awesome that I get to work 1 more day just so the company could cram another 30 minutes into my schedule.