well congrats if you just upgraded. are you in dtw? i figure i will go for it in a few more months when i can gaurantee i dont have to sit reserve. and yes if you have training then pref bid will screw you. i cant wait till august though. i have one of my weeks of vacation then. i plan on putting all my bids so that i fly during that 12 day spread. than i will SLIDE it around and see if i can get most of the month off. but then again we will have to see if they will even follow the ruling for the july bid first. to bad the arbitrator didn't make them have a specific date when they had to start complying.

and what do you think of this. since non of us can see how the company is running the bids whats to stop them from plugging in the vacations before they run it, then after the results are done removing the vacation before posting it.