Originally Posted by
gloopy
If you bid every possible trip you'd be willing to do, and then rank them based off of your desired criteria, then yes it would work. But in most categories that is incredibly labor intensive. Even worse when most trips don't report every day and many are one offs.
It doesn't have to be that labor intensive. Reading this thread, I am guessing that most of you haven't learned the "Award Pairings if Pairing Number if Depart On" preference very well. This preference will allow dozens, if not hundreds, of pairings to be placed on one bid line, and you can even rank order--or not--your preferences. It can also be done fairly quickly with the Pairings search option, and you can even sort by "lowest to highest/earliest to latest/least to most"...or the other way round, in about ten different ways!
It is an unwieldy process, and not intuitive at all. The various PBS publications out there (very good most of the time) don't explain it very well either. Nevertheless it is a great feature of the WebApp. I'll add more info here if anyone is interested, dumbed down to a "pilot-friendly" level, which is the level that works for me.