Originally Posted by
Gulfasaurus
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?
Coverage awards must be processed from the same bid group as your awarded schedule. Pbs identifies the days you are subject to coverage and ignores any prefer offs for those days. It awards a trip or trips that operate on the coverage days using the remaining lines in your bid.