I'm not privy to the set-up they're using but I can surmise. I'm curious why they upload the pairings into iCrew before the bidding solutions are even run. I'm sure it's to simplify things on their end. I would think they could upload the pairings into NavBlue without them being uploaded to iCrew. It's so easy to see the solutions as they run and see what trips I'm (or others) are getting. To keep it truly unknown until posting awards, would require something along the lines of:

1. A separate server, with either intranet access blocked, or no access at all, or:
2. Not loading the pairings into iCrew until after the awards are posted.

As each solution (run) is processed, it assigns names to rotations. If you're online, there is a way to see the process unfold. They'd have to do something like the above mentioned to keep it unknown until the publishing of awards. The pairings being uploaded to NavBlue and iCrew and the visibility of the names being assigned during the solution process tells me from a programmer view all I need to know.

Bottom line, I get what I get in the end, but the 0's and 1 side of me is curious! :D

Thanks guys. You have renewed my faith in this forum by answering a question with a real answer and not demeaning or berating in the process. (But dang it, now what can I get upset and complain about after you gave the company an excuse for late schedule releases?!)

Choice A) work 4 days including both days of a weekend and get the bids done early for all but the 717.

Choice B) work two days and have the weekend off, get the bids done early but later than normal for everyone.

How do you view these runs? Through NavBlue?

To give you an example of the solutions: The first solution it ran for me, it had me just below the LCW minimum. Actually, the first two solutions. It tried to swap one trip for another but it wasn't enough, so it ran another solution.

Thru iCrew

Do you just keep trying to click on future schedule?

No, but it does require some fast clicking. LOL Seriously. The solutions run very quickly. You have to be online at the right time and click fast!

All of this!

Is that really worth wasting your time on?

Waste depends on one's preferences. It's not something I lose sleep over. If I am not busy and at home when the solutions run, I look. Purely because I'm a computer geek. I'm also a fanatical cyclist, avid outdoors-man too, etc.. So waste of time depends on ones personal preferences. When the solutions run, they happen fast. It's literally just a few minutes of my time.

Like I said in an above post, bottom line, I get what I get. :D

I wondered if that’s what your screen name was, good one.

B's are out.

SW - Close on 9th. All awards posted by 11th. Blank lines awarded by 19th.


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I do miss that about line bidding.

Right. Obviously that's way faster. PBS is a hyper dymanic engine that goes up and down and back up and down again probably hundreds of times. Many pilots simply bid parameters, like no reports before 12:45PM for example. A first run may give them trips that meet that, but then lower seniority pilots bid something that causes trips to be removed from senior pilot's lines and given to them as long as the senior criteria can still be met, etc.

The product that comes out the other end absolutely needs to be checked. That's more than worth the "price" of not getting it 5 seconds after bids close.

All the A's abandoned this thread as soon as their results were out! 😂

The captains here that would complain about bids not being out are selfish and entitled?! Shocking....

I’ll put the over/under at you being called a snowflake at 3.5 posts

Snowflake!

I prefer to be addressed as “captain my captain”

That's great. I prefer to address captains as "seat fillers." :D I'm curious what your covert call sign is. :eek:

:)

So, you'll introduce yourself as Captain Seat filler? Maybe someday.

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I’ve also been known to respond to “dumb-a**” but I just blame it on the mad dog!

Could have been some time ago, but yup. I'm an employee not a demi-god. I'm glad we have pride and ego but some have more than enough and others are humble beyond belief. Which do you think people like working with? The 88 and QOL prevent my addition of a stripe.

:D (this an emoji, it indicates sentiment)

I can not, will not put my head in that noose. Not even in a year, not just to steer. Not as the caboose, that's just obtuse. I will not fly it here nor there, I will not fly it anywhere. I do not like it hot, I do not know how it got through DOT. I do not like it present tense I do not like in the fence. I do not like skating on ice, I do not like it at any price. I will not blank the rudder with a clam, It can not go to Amsterdam. I WILL NOT, Sam I am.

*slowclap*

Snowflake? The guys/Girls that would call him a snowflake left this thread after the A’s were done.

Usually the best Captains to fly with start our first leg together by saying something along the lines of: "The only reason I'm in this seat and you're not, is because I got hired before you."

Fix it for you.

Thanks, my memory was fuzzy!

“I do everything by the book.”

He’s probably right, it’s the book he got 25 years and 2 airlines ago.

I know it’s going to be a good trip when the Capt tell me he will do the walk around when it’s my leg to fly.

This. For the win. It happens so little I often have to ask them to repeat what they said just to make sure I wasn't dreaming.

In command school is pass/fail, open book test. No problem.

Might be time to fly with your favorite captain every trip.

Really? In over three years here, I’ve only had two guys tell me they won’t do it.

Are you requesting they do the walk around or are they just declaring it’s your job to do?

Everyone just says “I’ll get the walk around on your legs.”

Maybe it’s a base culture thing

That could be it. I have heard that offer a few times but the vast majority snag a walk around here and there.