haha best post of the day so far.

 

hey when you bid a reserve window for lets say a L2 window your actual bid you type in is 2L right? What about for a A1,A2 window is it also 1A,2A when you type it in.. thanks?

 

Double check with the bid packet for the correct bidding syntax, but I am fairly sure it is just the single digit. If the reserve window bidding guide is not available on the December bid packet, check previous months.

1 = A1
2 = A2
etc

 

you were right the first time...

L1=1L

L2=2L

A4=4A

so forth and so on..

 

Unless it has changed in the last few months, you would bid 1L 2L for long call and 7A, 6A, 5A, etc. for short call. Don't forget to add the two forward slashes at the start of your bid...

For example:

// 2L 1L 7A 6A 4A 3A

 

Ooops!

I guess I was wrong. That's why I had the "check the bid packet" caveat.

 

LOL, and be sure to bid this during the SAW, after the lines come out. I think some of you have not been on reserve in a very long time!

 

This is the same topic the Union had their undies all in a bunch over. The Company has been publishing this syntax info for as long as I can remember in each monthly bid packet (at least in the 50 seat CA packets that I've been looking at), but apparently not all the packets. When the Union asked the company to add the info to the packets missing the company pulled it from All the packets.

On the one hand, it seems rather petty of the company to act in this manner. But in their defense, if you cut out 2 pages from each bid packet times, what 1200 bid packets??, times 12 bid periods per year you could save 28000 pages+ of paper per year. But then they go and publish, for instance, the JFK bid packet and the back of the first page is totally blank. A completely wasted side. So maybe they are acting out of spite, who knows.

On the other hand, the Union seems to be making a big deal out of nothing. If a pilot needs the info, go to EPIC and look up a bid packet from 2 months ago. Or call Planning and harass them (my favorite MO and what I used to do EVERY month I had vacation, I would call them and ask how many days I could push the vacation start date. They finally added it to the bid packet) Or put that info on the ALPA website. Or post a request on here. It probably doesn't REALLY NEED TO BE published each month in the bid packet.

Or if it does need to be published, have every reserve pilot call the company, play dumb, and ask the same question. Do this every month until they add it back.

 

Sorry, I know it's a little off topic but does anyone ever have trouble getting their Macbook to login to hotel networks? I am thinking of getting one and I hear it can be a problem.

 

I've had a Macbook for about a year now and I have had no trouble at all logging into any networks. If you get one, you won't regret it once you learn how to use it. It takes about a month to get used to it, but I've only had ONE program lock up on me in a year, and I honestly don't remember the last time I got any kind of error message. They just plain work.