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Just a quick question. How many "bid Periods" are there in a year? Is it the same for all airlines??

Well, that’s a good question. Each airline has a set of work rules or a Union contract that dictate how many bid periods there are. Generally there are 12-13 bids per year at some cargo operators there may be a 2 month bit limiting the bids to 6 per year. The month is broken down into lines of flying. Check this out for a better example ( I’m a slow typer)
http://airlinepilotmentor.com/AirlinePilotschedules.aspx
It will explain better what a Line really is. Just realize that the quality of lines may differ greatly at different airlines. This means some trips will pay less while staying away from home for the same period of time. Hope this helps a little.

Good Luck

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Originally Posted by Mouse (Post 132121)

Just a quick question. How many "bid Periods" are there in a year? Is it the same for all airlines??

As far as regionals go, most have 12. But not every bid period is the actual month. As and example, most airlines take a day off of Jan and a day off of Mar to make Feb a 30 day period.

I believe that MESA has 13 28 day bid periods.