Originally Posted by TheProfessionalPilot
"Where will I most likely end up even if I bid for MIA?"
Where you will end up depends on your relative age in class. If you are young, you get the leftovers. The only way you could bid for MIA is to bid the ATR, which means that your initial choice needs to be SJU ATR. If you bid any jet or Saab slot, you will never get MIA as you can't go from those a/c back to the ATR and that is the only a/c based in MIA. You cannot bid between turboprops nor can you go 'down' to a turboprop once you awarded a jet F/O slot.
So, consider what a/c are based in which city carefully. If you are after a certain domicile, you need to bid an a/c type that is based there. As a newbie I was given the choice of ATR, ERJ & SF3 but knew that to get to LAX I needed to bid the junior a/c in that base, the Saab.