Originally Posted by
R1200RT
man that takes a long time doing a CIC. I've started just putting my choices in order. If I get #1 and #2 is still around I get that one too, if not it looks at #3 and so on. They will keep adding trips until you run out of time. I'm sure you might do better spending days choosing another way, but it's way too much trouble. Putting multiple trips on a single line kills it... a lot of the time.
Of course the post was about VTOs and if you used two line to make one request how they'd handle it. On that I don't have a clue.
i did the
A,B,C
A,B,D
A,B,E
and so on...
one time for my VTO request. I got a nasty-gram from MS (futures guy in ANC) email stating that wasn't a valid way of inputting requests - so many "redundant" trips - and the computer wouldn't accept that format - and NOT to do it that way in the future.
however you end up inputting it, bleeding over onto the next line will be considered a separate request.
I was also told that if you put A,B,C on a single line (request) and the computer can give you only B, it considers that it has "fully honored" your first choice (even though it only gave you 1 out of the 3 you asked for)
bottom line is VTO requests are just that - requests - don't hold your breath.
the monthly M/U bid is a totally different animal. I believe they keep giving you trips until you reach the total number of hours you asked to make up, or you run out of request lines - whichever occurs first. They don't stop once they award you one trip (or one line request)