Originally Posted by FangsF15

Ahhh, I see what you are saying.

IOW, if everyone had auto-accept on, but the 10th pilot is the one who actually acknowledged the trip, it would have to give the first 9 pilots a 12 minute window to acknowledge the trip before moving on to the next person, thus making the 10th person almost 2 hours after the acceptance window closed before the trip was acknowledged, and thus officially 'covered'.