No, that is where you bid golden days after the initial bid results. You bid reserve days off in the PBS system. When you first start to enter your bid you get a window that says "Start Regular" or "Start Reserve." To bid days off on reserve, select "Start Reserve" then select "Prefer Off" and enter the days you prefer off on reserve.

Denny

 

oh Ok. I probably would've tried that if I had a password to access PBS oh well.

 

It should be the same as your Deltanet password fwiw.

 

Just came back to ATL after a weekend in Huntsville/Decatur Alabama. There is still 4" of snow on the ground and it was colder than ATL. Yet the roads were all clear and most of the parking lots were plowed and salted. ATL is still a mess.

One more reason why Alabama is superior to Georgia. ROLL TIDE!

 

Get off of me daddy you're crushin' my marlboros

 

Marlboros??? I thought women down that way rolled their own

 

I completely agree.

The story goes that in the 1940s Delta Air Lines was looking for a southern hub and the decision came down to BHM and ATL. BHM was an iron works town at the time and was larger, I think 1.1M to 800K. But BHM added an aviation fuel tax and ATL got Delta. Had that not happened, could the Big Ham be Atlanta? A lot of local historians think so.

But there's another part of the story. The history of the south post civil war is very interesting and multifaceted of course but to me it sounded like ATL was a mess until Bell Aircraft decided to put a B-24/B-29 manufacturing plant in Marietta. My father-in-law's dad built B-29s there until the day the war was over. Lockheed took over that plant and my father-in-law out of high school worked on the C-5s in the same building his dad had built B-29s. My father-in-law was working inside the nose once when someone on the outside drilled through his hand. Ouch. They obviously still build the C-130s but at a time I believe the C-141s... Buzz?

Anyways, you could probably argue Atlanta started to come out of the Gone with the Wind funk to modern society because of Bell and then Delta. Or so they say. It's history so it's arguable.



But I'd prefer it having been Alabama any day. ATL is... blah, but you carve out your place and it's alright.

 

DLDude, thanks so much. That's what I figured happened. I gave it 3 Asia trips to look at then 12 domestics of varied lengths (for the carryout/slop trips) but they weren't enough to get into the LCW. That is normally enough for PBS to look at but not this time. No biggie, I still like what it gave me...........and not having 50something hours on Saipan will be good for my liver

Thanks again for all you guys do!

Ferd

 

You can prevent PBS from shuffling a bid group by putting a negative preference at the end of that bid group.

 

Don't feel bad Ferd, my first attempt at bidding in over 2 years was an epic failure. I got the avoid/award trips button wrong and ended up with 3 trips with 1 day between them. Not good...