Originally Posted by hammer189

They use a snapshot of your schedule taken just after the bids close at 8 am eastern time.
What ever is there then will be used to build your next months schedule.

Tip for junior guys who want to force time off early in the month you are bidding for.
Example Bidding for July, and assuming you will be unstacked and forced to fly on July 4th.
If the end of June is open to fly, you can pick up a carry over trip after the bids close on the 12th that would conflict with the July 4th trip that PBS will assign (or you could bid for on purpose). PBS doesn"t know about this trip but when your sked is loaded into I-crew the conflict will drop the July 4th trip WITHOUT pay protection since it is believed you did this to yourself on purpose.
Now you have July 4th off even if you got unstacked and can pick up later in the month to raise your pay back to normal.
Never tried this but the ALPA sked guys say this works.

P.S. Sorry it's too late to try this for this years July 4th!

Now back to lurking!