Originally Posted by tnkrdrvr

Conflict bidding is an artifact of line bidding. For instance, you bid a line featuring two long round the world type trips of 12 and 14 days. You then bid short term training (CQ6) that conflicts with one of those long trips. They will now drop that long trip (pay protected) and either you can make up the credit deficit by picking up stuff from open time, opt not to but allow them to try, or lock-in the credit drop by choosing to not let scheduling try to put stuff in. In ANC, there are fewer short trips available for them to put into your line so you frequently can conflict two days of training for a full pay period’s worth of flying pay. There are more ins and outs, but that’s the gist of it.