You can view how imputed income works on Deltanet under pass travel policies. It works exactly how I described

I think that's what happened. Sure would have been nice for them to do it AFTER SC were awarded for next day reserves lol.

Can we name an adult child as a secondary companion besides our spouse once they age out?

It’s two different bid periods. On the PCS screen where you select “reserve preferences and slips”, before selecting that change the bid period to the next bid period. That way your SC YS won’t be conflicting with each other. Just like a GS or WS you put the slip in for the appropriate bid period.

Not near EFB. These SCs via PBS just pay the standard 1:00 SCC if unused right

As far as I can tell, they are no different than normal SCs, except that they can be bid early. So to answer your question, yes.

Comms on this from all fronts is extremely lackluster.

I have seen no indication whatsoever that you would have any protection to actually sit one of these SCs. By that I mean, if you were awarded a SC via this new bidding method, there is a possibility that you could still be assigned something during next-day/second-day trip coverage that could overwrite the SC.

One could presume that you are in pre-assigned rest for 18 hours preceeding the first of these awarded SCs, and this might eliminate LC from your schedule if the awarded SC is on the first day of a stretch of LC days, therefore unavailble for next-day/second-day assignment (and the 10-18 hour carve for coming from an off-day.)

But what if you were awarded SC on day 2 of a stretch of LC? Nothing to prevent a 5-day trip assignment on day 1 of the LC stretch that wipes out your awarded SC?

So many questions.

Here is my plan for bidding for SC. I will bid for SC when I forget to bid for golden days. This way I will accomplish all my bidding and forgetting to bid at the same time - doubling my productivity.

Scoop :)

Speaking of golden days, someone posted something recently that got me thinking. What is the benefit of golden days anymore. You're only helping them with rest requirements and they can still reroute you into them. With 18 hour callout, you're effectively released at 0600 on your last day anyway. They're pretty stingy about 1 day SC's so I'm not sure there is much of a gain there. This person said they actaully swap their off days to clear them off their schedule. Never thought much about it, but they seem to have a point. I'm probably missing something though.

I have similar feelings though an occasional golden day is useful to better protect me from being extended a day after my last day of reserve. It has happened to me a couple of times and seemingly always on the worst day for it to occur. Another downside of a golden day is it prevents you from doing any IAs on your day off, which really sucks when they are running hot.

My preference would be to allow reserves to bid UP TO a max amount of golden days, but if they bid for less then they are awarded less.

You can still be extended into a golden, it's just harder for it happen. The one time I ever remember being extended into off days, was a golden day (airport shut down for ice storm). But I can see the utility in having one more blocker in the way. Also, you're right, forgot to metion that you can't get an IA on those days.