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Old 12-20-2017, 06:29 AM
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Originally Posted by 20sx View Post
Blue is good! Trips that were selected by your PBS bid.
Ah, so purples are trips that did not meet my criteria but were needed to fill my bid? The 2 purple trips meet all the filters except the first one. Overall I'm pretty happy with the award. No out of pocket hotels next month!
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Old 12-20-2017, 06:35 AM
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Overall I'm pretty happy with the award. No out of pocket hotels next month!
Dude...you were unstacked. That's nothing to be happy about.
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Old 12-20-2017, 07:32 AM
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Dude...you were unstacked. That's nothing to be happy about.
Unstacked, ok. Fully commutable schedule bidding down near the bottom of the seniority list and not sitting one minute of reserve, yes, I'm ok with that.
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Old 12-20-2017, 08:58 AM
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I don't understand "unstacked" fully. I'd love to see a layman's explanation of it. I read all about it in the PBS guide but still don't grasp it. I have two purple trips as well. The first one matches all my criteria. The second one matches all but start time > 1359. But I will trade that one out here at noon - and even if not it's doable. Everything else matches what I asked for. Exactly. The "bad" news since I'm new is that it means we are really really short of pilots with no reserve pool at all.
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Old 12-20-2017, 10:58 AM
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Thinking of a poker game. The dealer is Mesa management and we are all the players. Regardless of what you bid, the company deals the cards and WE ALL get low cards or even aces and 8’s!!!!
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Old 12-20-2017, 11:06 AM
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Originally Posted by pangolin View Post
I don't understand "unstacked" fully. I'd love to see a layman's explanation of it.
Easy example: everyone bids Christmas off. Christmas is one of the peak flying times of the year, and they need more pilots than average. As a result, lots of (junior) pilots end up flying over or near Christmas even though they bid not to.

It’s called unstacking because in the grid view of pairings that need to be covered, there is a big vertical “stack” of trips over Christmas.
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Old 12-20-2017, 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by frankgh View Post
Ah, so purples are trips that did not meet my criteria but were needed to fill my bid? The 2 purple trips meet all the filters except the first one. Overall I'm pretty happy with the award. No out of pocket hotels next month!
Unstacking tries to follow what you want, but in the end it will give you what has to be flown. I'm glad it worked out for you!
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Old 12-20-2017, 06:17 PM
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Sick calls are now the latest topic. I say if u feel bad, don’t call out sick. Just puke all over the airplane and tell them u didn’t want to get a “sic” on ur schedule!!! Just my thoughts!!!
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Old 12-20-2017, 06:25 PM
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Sick calls are now the latest topic. I say if u feel bad, don’t call out sick. Just puke all over the airplane and tell them u didn’t want to get a “sic” on ur schedule!!! Just my thoughts!!!
Given what they are doing to people’s schedules with unstacking, they shouldn’t be surprised.
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Old 12-21-2017, 01:09 AM
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Explain unstacking in plain language.
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