It’s the classic prisoners delima, and it won’t change based on our current contract.

We need PM more like a SWA to fix this. My understanding is that at SWA, premium is applied in small increments and gets higher as it gets closer to the trip. Basically an auction, pick it up when it meets your personal decision matrix.

For me, it’s pretty important to know exactly what my month is going to look like, and have complete control over it via TTOT. I don’t like being tied down on my days off. So I don’t do well on reserve, nor do I like being on the premium list (I put myself on the list and then always turn them down or never pick up the phone - I probably drive scheduling nuts!). :)

So with those constraints, I’m looking at TAFB instead of block time. If I’m gone for three days, the higher the credit the better - I don’t care whether I block 5 hours or 15. I love my day trips, where I’m blocking 6.5 for about 9 hours away. Unfortunately that results in higher block times for a given monthly credit, but if I’m away from home anyway, it doesn’t bother me to be spending more of that time in the cockpit rather than a hotel (or on a DH in the back).

Uncovered trips are available for trade more than three days out. Within three days they are available for bidding. If someone bids straight it has to be awarded straight. If there are only premium bidders the company can award it premium (1.5) or assign it to a reserve or split the trip and try it again.

Round 2 question
 

[QUOTE=PRS Guitars;2746052]Just a heads up, your round 1 bid does not carry over. You need to now enter bids for round 2 and 3 separately. You can import your round 1 bid though. This year, we can apply conditional bidding to round 3. We couldn’t last year and many (myself included) ended up with 2 weeks in a row of vacation.


If you bid in round 2 what you bid in round 1, but you weren’t awarded it in round 1, is there a chance you can get it in round 2? My understanding is if you weren’t awarded it in round 1, you won’t be able to get it in round 2-4. Is this correct? (This is my first year bidding for vacation).

[QUOTE=Climb510;2746283]There is a list of the weeks left, right next to the award. You most likely won’t get it, but might as well try.