Originally Posted by
Dynamiterabbit
2. The #1 pilot gets whatever they want (within FAR rules etc), and those trips are taken out of the pool.
3. As each pilot bids, the pool of trips gets smaller.
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Most PBS systems work this way, but ours is different. Ours “optimizes” all trips with everyone’s requests concurrently trying to essentially make everyone happy. So basically the more junior pilots still have a crack at the “better trips”. For instance if a senior pilot isn’t specific enough in what they bid for and don’t weight it high enough, a junior pilot could in theory get the more desirable trips. It’s definitely wizardry that should be easier to use than it is