Originally Posted by
Bhawk510
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?
You don't just bid one line, you bid as many as you need to cover your seniority in descending order of want. IE, if your seniority number (in base) is #250 then you need to bid at least 250 lines. If you know you are going to be bidding a reserve line then you just need to figure out how far down the reserve list you will be. IE, if you will be the 25th reserve holder for that month then you'll need to bid 25 reserve lines to cover your position. I've never bid reserve for this airline but I'm pretty sure that's how it works. If not someone will be alone to straighten me out.