Originally Posted by
TED74
I think if you're in the bottom third you probably do best to award XXXX on a trip that only slightly impacts Christmas and/or Christmas Eve. You know you'll get hit by coverage, why not have some say in how? Via what bid (award (something)) did the junior guy who had the 24th off get his coverages assigned?
Yep, Pretty much the last 6 1/2 pages of bid awards (out of 14) were coverage awards. Being in coverage is like being in the twilight zone. I knew I would be flying over Christmas so I prioritized a bunch of trips - all denied but a guy junior to me gets one of those trips - after being a senior FO for a while I forgot how "exciting" it is to be junior. I'm sure the HAL 9000 has a method but to me it seems like its just random once you hit coverage.
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