Originally Posted by
Bhawk510
Thanks, and no worries. What’s an airline without some good rumors. What I meant about scheduling and being flexible is probably not what is used at AS. One of my previous employers had a couple of people in the scheduling office that would work with you one-on-one if you needed a day moved around here or there. Line bidding is completely new to me. It looks simple enough, but not much flexibility to get the specific trips you want based on how you need your month to look when it comes to time off.
If I understand it, a junior person, such as myself will be, only looks at the reserve bid lines and picks one and hopefully that’s the one you get. If you don’t get the one you want, what happens then? Do you just get assigned one and if it sucks, it sucks?
As mentioned above, you ‘might’ be able to move some of the reserve days around. It all depends on reserve coverage, etc. i’ve had pretty good luck moving a few reserve days around, to get the days off I need.
You can’t drop reserve days though, it’s still just 12 days off no matter what, and you still need to comply with min rest between reserve blocks, so no more than 6 in a row on short call.