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Old 12-12-2024 | 10:09 AM
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Originally Posted by ohaiyo
Couldn't you still just have one white slip - which you would still roll every day - but that had trip parameters that covered MIN 01 MAX 05 day trips? Wouldn't that accomplish the same thing?
No. At least, no way that I’m aware of. Because the “all flying days for award” isn’t the start date, it’s all inclusive days of the trip. So to capture the 5th day of a a 5-day, 4 of the 5 possible days will not be a proffer for a 1-day, and 3 of the days won’t be a proffer for a 2-day, and so on.

For example, today is the 12th, let’s say you put in for a Min1 Max5 with inclusive dates of 12-18th (a 5-day trip starting on the 14th is a proffer after the 2000 PCS run on the 11th, so long as you do NOT check the “award on 0700 PCS run). A 5-day leaving in the 14th ends on the 18th. A 1-day trip starting on the 15th, 16th, 17th, or 18th will simply be awarded as a WS, and you can’t turn it down…

So to prevent this, I put in WS preference 11 as a 1-day min and max, inclusive of dates today through 2 days later(the 14th), then preference 12 as a 2-day min a max, inclusive of dates today through 3 days later(the 15th - adding another day to capture the 2nd of the 2 days), then preference 13 as…. They would all be proffers through ARCOS, and I can turn them all down by not responding. Helps me keep them straight, and leaves room to slide in a specific slip as preference 1 or 9 if I see something I actually want.

I wish there was a check box for “proffered trips only”, then you could do as you wrote above. But there isn’t, so you have to go through the hoops each day, to roll all the dates forward. It’s a mild pain, but once you get it, it’s pretty quick to update each day.

Of course, that’s just for lineholders (in a Reserve thread no less). Hope that helps.

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