1st Practice Bid Invalid? - Page 2 - Airline Pilot Central Forums

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KnightFlyer , 05-02-2008 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Gunter

Practice is just that, practice. Which includes a chance for the company to figure out if it is running like it should. Who knows what is being changed. I hope they figure it out before the bid is supposed to close.

It's easy to sum it up if you're just talking about practice. We're sitting here, and I'm supposed to be the an upgrading pilot, and we're talking about practice. I mean listen, we're sitting here talking about practice, not a bid award, not an award, not an award, but we're talking about practice. Not the trip that I go out there and die for and fly every leg last it's my last but we're talking about practice man. How silly is that?

Now I know that I'm supposed to lead by example and all that but I'm not shoving that aside like it don't mean anything. I know it's important, I honestly do but we're talking about practice. We're talking about practice man. We're talking about practice. We're talking about practice. We're not talking about the award. We're talking about practice. When you come to the AOC, and you see me fly, you've seen me fly right, you've seen me give everything I've got, but we're talking about practice right now.

#12

2005 Blues , 05-02-2008 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by KnightFlyer

Dude you're killing me. Gotta love A.I.

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DLax85 , 05-02-2008 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by SNIZ

I didn't see this mentioned in any of the earlier threads..if I missed it I apologize.

I'm hearing some pretty persistant rumors than the first practice excess bid was essentially invalid due to software issues. Third hand info from JL.

Just a heads up to check the results of future bids and make sure you were awarded what you bid, in seniority order. Which apparently wasn't happening on the first practice bid.

Confirmed this week in MEM that the first bid had serious software glitches that resulted in incorrect awards.

Company is now focused on putting out "correct" practice awards over "timely" practice awards.

If glitches continue the bid closeout date may be delayed.

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Twiceskunkeddog , 05-02-2008 02:03 PM

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Nevermind.... Humor failure light just illuminated....

TSD

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MrSuupafly , 05-02-2008 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by KnightFlyer

Man, you beat me to it. That's the first thing that came to my mind when I read that post. LOL.

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Daniel Larusso , 05-02-2008 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by 2005 Blues

Dude you're killing me. Gotta love A.I.

I watched that press conference live on ESPN news in it's entirety and it was awesome. AI was still ****ed about going out to the Celts early, and was coming out of his exit interview. They kept grilling him with the same question over and over again, and you could just see it building to an explosion.

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MrSuupafly , 05-02-2008 05:01 PM

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For those of you who have no idea what we're talking about.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eGDBR2L5kzI

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Gunter , 05-02-2008 06:32 PM

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Now it makes sense.

I guess the company REALLY needed to practice. Even though it is just practice.

"How can I make my fellow players better by practice?"

Now we know how.