Originally Posted by
ninerdriver
If you have 20 or 30 pairings that you really like, then that's a lot of award statements. That's also limits what you can do with the rest of your bid, since we're limited to 50 lines per bid. Plus, it takes like 15 minutes per bid card to actually get Carmen to accept all of that.
Here's how we'd do it in Adopt:
+5 pts layover in A.
+5 pts layover in B.
Layover in A and B scores 10 points and wins.
But not over the weekend, so minus 50 points for trips touching Saturdays or Sundays.
And don't forget adding a couple points to trips owned by LCAs.
There were even H/M/L options for folks who didn't understand and/or couldn't be bothered with the above.
WAIT. Those pesky ex-regional pilots are trying to improve QOL for everyone again! Someone stop them. (that's not aimed at you, Vernon)
Award CMB lines help with whittling down the number of bid lines you need to get the same flavor of trips. You may not be able to specify a trip with two different layovers, but you typically can find a commonality amongst other criteria between the trips to isolate them in a different way. What you describe above can likely be done on 3 lines with two awards in different buckets and one avoid in between.
Award CMB L - -
Avoid weekends
Award CMB (same as above) H + +