The app can hold your log.

end of an era and props to guard dude

Pour a dram! But pour a second for the mods, it needed to be done.

PBS question. I want certain trips that would conflict with my prefer off days. If I put them ahead of prefer off will they be awarded?

award rotation
prefer off

Yes you will be awarded the trip becasue you are making those trips a higher priority then the days off. I do this sometimes when I really want certain trips and don't absolutely need the day off. I also screwed up in the past and for some reason inadvertently put trips desired above prefer off and somehow I bid for a trip that flew on days that I wanted and could have held off. I really learn PBS by making every mistake possible at least once. Like award trips that check in before 1400 and get the trip that blocks in at 2345 and has a 0015 release time. :D

On second though perhaps you probably shouldn't be taking PBS from me.

Scoop

Thanks Scoop.

So would this include: “Award layover in XYZ” even though it’s an early report, followed by “Avoid early reports?”

Avoid removes trips from the pool. So if you say award specifics pairings before saying avoid, the trips wouldn't be removed yet.

Perfect. Thanks, CB.

In general you want to put in most/all of your avoid pairings before you start with the award pairings. This will ensure that PBS starts putting things on your line that you actually want. And you want to order your avoids from highest priority to lowest priority, so that if it goes into denial mode your least important avoids will be ignored first.

For example. you absolutely cannot commute in before 9AM, but you'd still like trips that report later in the day. You'd structure it something like this:

Avoid pairings if pairing check in time before 9 AM
Avoid pairings if pairing check in time before 1 PM
Avoid pairings if pairing check in time before 5 PM
Award pairings

This way if it can build you a schedule with trips that all report after 5 PM, great, it will. But if it doesn't have enough trips then it will deny your 5 PM request and then try to pull from trips that only report after 1 PM, and again if it can't do that it'll fall back to the 9 AM.

I understand the logic here. But what I'm trying to do is avoid early reports or redeyes except for a specific airport.