Originally Posted by
Bill Lumberg
I think someone on here was talking about trying to swap for a trip but not being allowed to because next months bids aren't released yet? When will that happen. I see a tasty 4 day trip in ATL that I could swap for, but I keep getting that message. It starts on Tuesday. When will those ALPA people release the bids? Thank you.
Those ALPA people????
If you mean the Dalpa volunteers who work their buts off QAing the bids then perhaps you should volunteer to help them. They don't get trip drop pay and do it on their spare time.
They however have nothing to do with when the bid results are released into DBMS. The company controls that and is not contractually required to do it until 1800 on the 17th. In months where the bids are done early they sometimes release the schedules sooner. It depends on if they feel they are final. There may be pilots disputing the bid results which would cause them to wait on the final release.