Originally Posted by
iaflyer
Here's what I know - PBS uses coverage awards when it determines that after the bids are processed, there will be too many unawarded trips. So, reduce the level of unawarded trips, it will assign trips to people prior to working through the bid. It's also called "unstacking" because the "stack" of trips was too high.
So, PBS does try to give you something that you wanted, even if it's on a day that you don't want to work. So it looks through your bid, looks at the trips that were unassigned and tries to match them up. So when the coverage award system worked it's way though it's pile, it had no idea whether or not someone else would get a conflicting trip. It just knew that the trip you were assigned wasn't covered, and you had some interest in it (even at line 37).
Thanks for the reply. I talked to a couple of guys here tonight that had pretty much the same explanation that you had. I'm still not getting how I was "stacked" into a trip well below a trip that I bid and then the trip I bid went to a junior bidder. He was "stacked" into the trip I bid as well. So it's a little strange. I guess ALPA has to figure that out, because it makes no sense to me. I'll call tomorrow when I'm back in the states and figure it out, I guess. Thank you very much for the reply and trying to figure it out. I appreciate it.