Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Ferd, It means that you did not bid a specific trip, and to compete a line of time for a junior guy they removed your awarded trip and assigned another trip that fit your parameters so that they could fill the junior bidder up with a full LOT.
(At least that is why the PBS gurus told me it meant. I could be wrong
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Not true
Under the Delta system PBS will swap a trip from a senior to a junior pilot, but only if the trip is equally satisfying to the senior pilot in the context of his bids. Let's say that there are 5 trips that satisfy a senior pilot's preferences and PBS awards two of those trips because they fit. Now let's say that PBS gets to the junior pilot and he asked for one of those two trips awarded to the senior pilot, either generally or specifically. PBS will try to make the swap and give the senior pilot one of the other trips that it could have given him in the first place, but it is only trying to improve the junior pilot's bid if it will not come at the expense of the senior pilot.
Shuffling is basically a process to find a combination of trips that will fit and does not look at junior pilots. My answer to Ferd is here:
http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/ma...tml#post930334