Originally Posted by newKnow (Post 721530)

I thought easybid was supposed to be free. Why is it prompting me for my credit card and charge me per minute?? :confused:

Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 721523)

They run several practice bids after posting every time. I suspect in this case they will run at least half a dozen. They just don't post the results. Years ago you could call them or walk over and see a practice bid. They stopped that because they found that in the last day before a bid closed over 30 percent of the pilots changed what they wanted. People who thought they were getting a bid and then did not get it would complain even though they were told it was not the final bid. It created to many headaches for them. You can however be sure they will run many bids before they make a final posting.
They want to move as many pilots as possible because now is the perfect time. They have a surplus of pilots so can keep a bunch in school and fly the schedule. The cost to do this is minimal. The majority of training costs are fixed. The portion of training costs that can flux is much cheaper when you have a surplus of pilots. If you are doing a lot of training and short then those costs go way up as the number of Greenslips explodes. It was not unusual in a heavy training time to have 5000 plus green slips a month when we had 7000 pilots.
They anticipate next winter that they will be hiring pilots. That creates lots of training events. If they are going to move people now is by far the most logical time to do it. The good news is that this bid is going to be a gain in positions. We have not seen that in a long time!!

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 721528)

Interesting sailing. You kind of figure they're watching it, but I've got two quesitons, a) can they renege on their offering or what they posted if they don't like what they're seeing or do they have to cancel the bid and start over (i.e. drop NYC 765 as an example) and b) what exactly is "a gain in positions" though?

And Super, Alabama or Florida, which one do you want?

Originally Posted by Weed (Post 721549)

Hey fellas,
I don't have access to my FOM right now...

When can I start wearing my Christmas Tie?

Weed

Originally Posted by Weed (Post 721549)

Hey fellas,
I don't have access to my FOM right now...

When can I start wearing my Christmas Tie?

Weed

Originally Posted by newKnow (Post 721530)

I thought easybid was supposed to be free. Why is it prompting me for my credit card and charge me per minute?? :confused:

Originally Posted by NuGuy (Post 721556)

Heyas New,

The off-line bidding application from the PBS vendor is free. That may be what you're thinking of.

"EasyBid", which is something completely different, is also free, but you are required to pay Flightline (the people who publish it) a fee for access to the DAL mainframe. Sort of how we used to have to pay Compuserve for access to the NWA mainframe...which we gave up, what? Six or eight years ago?

That's the nice thing about the DAL merger...every week we get a history lesson on how we USED to do things at NWA...next thing you know, we'll have to manually log our T/Os and landings...oops, never mind. Maybe they'll have us filling out the old manual pay sheets and hand computing flight plan next.

To bad we can't go back to the pay rates from 8 years ago.

Nu

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 721528)

And Super, Alabama or Florida, which one do you want?