Originally Posted by
bugman61
I assumed that he was referring to this strategy for holiday bidding:
1. Prefer Off Day XX
2. Award desirable trip that operates on Day XX
If you can hold the day off, then line 1 is honored and you get it off. If you are subject to coverage over the day, then line 1 is ignored and you are awarded the trip of your choice, instead of whatever else was in your bid, down to the "award pairings" line.
Or he just wanted to work that trip and bid for it without the prefer off. It would still show up as a coverage award.
Interesting perspective I hadn't thought about it this way. My reasons report shows that trip awarded as coverage in the pre-award line. Later down in my preferences I had a "award pairing if layover in XXX" line, which was one of the layovers on the coverage trip. Under that line it says "1 awarded for coverage". Does that mean I would have gotten another coverage trip had I not bid that line or I was going to be given that trip no matter what?