Originally Posted by
freezingflyboy
"Award pairing number if departing on (ordered)" works great if you want to take the time to sharpshoot the bid pack. But without some decent seniority it can be a lot of effort for little reward.
Sorting dates, least to highest, earliest to latest, etc is easy enough while using the search pairings function. Entering those into a bid is where it becomes labor intensive. Depending on priorities in a month, one is sometimes left to sort through 100+ pairings and then order those in some way that works best for them and then entering those ordered pairings one at a time into a bid line. I'd be interested if you had any tips on streamlining that process.
If you go to the DALPA website and click on the PBS committee, they have a video posted from last week's webinars on the webapp. It's all explained nicely on that, skip ahead about 30 minutes I think.
My problem is it only works for one sort criteria. You can't rank by multiple parameters like in Excel, so you still end up having to closely examine and manually sort trips.
What would be easier is doing what we suggested earlier in this thread.