Thanks Keenster! I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Are you sticking with the 744? As the others mentioned, in ICREW, you go BIDS, ADVANCE ENTITLEMENT then it its the third choice Unclesam said.

It's a nice tool to get an idea of where you stand but don't take it to the bank. That number only show the pilots senior to you that have a bid in as an AE. It does NOT include pilots who only have in a VD or MD. Nor can you tell if any one has put in qualifiers such as "reg line only" etc.

Guys can look at the total number and get discouraged from bidding but you just never know and, generally speaking, you can semi-discount the number of pilots that have the bid in but it's lower than their 3rd choice. You do have to take into account some guys who bid stuff they know they cannot hold but most do not do that.

Denny