You crack me up Awax, repeating the exact same points again and again as if it they get stronger with each try.

Here is your prime argument used against you. EWR is widely acknowledged as having the best flying in the system. However, DEN is by far the most senior, with many relatively senior folks who live there commuting to SFO/LAX to get a line, fly WB, or whatever. Is it not an abrogation of seniority that such senior folks in DEN have to do this? By golly, why isn't the MEC forcing the company to route the best flying through DEN and making those junior guys in EWR suck it up? Come to think of it, why do we allow bases to bid separately for their "own" flying? I suppose perhaps we should allow guys to bid in seniority order without regard to base. I wouldn't mind bidding and commuting to a couple of different bases during the month for a crack at some of their best trips, it wouldn't add much commute time for me at all.

What's that you say? "But, but, but, it would make no sense to have all those great Caribbean turns start in DEN! We've always carved out separate bidding by base." I agree with you, but the DEN base is indeed senior so I guess by your line of thought we'd have to build inefficient trips and burn money to honor the seniority of the pilots there. Profit sharing be dammed!

I would have been content to see this thread go nowhere after my initial post, as I'm fine just observing how things go for DAL. Like I said, the discussion on their forum on the subject was damn near cut and paste from what has already been said here. If you've got a brand new case to make, I'm all ears. If not, let the thread die pretty please. Spare me any insults though, I consider them to be veiled attempts to shore up a weak argument.