Originally Posted by
blockplus
Having bid in both systems, I agree. Spring bidding is the worst of the 2. But, you will never get a person who hasn’t had the fall bid to admit it might be better because that’s the way they always do it and good luck changing their minds.
I used to have the fall bid. I like this much better. O2 pilot is right. We think in calendar years, and its a pattern interrupt to change it. Which is why most airline pilots, who are crazy analytical and OCD cant fathom it. But I prefer bidding in January, because I have a much better idea of what my spring/summer/fall will look like. Its just like bidding monthly schedules. If we bid them too far in advance, we’d have a hard time getting time off when our kids soccer team schedules a traveling tournament 3 weeks out.