Originally Posted by
Pilotwhois47yrs
So, there's not enough FO's in IAD. Therefore, what we request doesn't matter? It will be purple until more FO's come to IAD? Am, I reading this correctly?
No base has enough FO’s.
It gets better with seniority. You can look at PBS awards to see how far up the seniority list you need to be in order to get less unstacking.
While coverage awards are supposed to respect your bid preferences if it can, most often coverage awards end up ignoring what you put in.