Open time/7 day freeze
 

There used to be a link to the bid packet inserts where it showed the date and time for the end of the 7 day trip trade freeze, and when next months trip trade opens. I can't find it anymore, anyone know where it is??? Or what the dates/times are?? Thanks!!

Under CCS, Bidding, Bid Packages, there's a new generic link for all BESs called "Bid Period Information" which has info of a general nature that you're looking for. About 2/3 the way through this it says, "Trip Trade opens on the 24th of each month at 1600 hours" taken from,

"20-P-4-c The trip-trade system shall process requests for the first time at 1600 on the twenty-fourth (24th) day of the calendar month preceding the Bid Period."

It used to be earlier than the 24th I believe.

Thanks, just found that, when does the 7 day freeze for December end of the month end??

"20-P-1-g Commencing at 0001 Central Time on the calendar day that bidding for Monthly Schedule Preferencing closes, any schedule modification request that alters the last six (6) days of the current Bid Period shall be delayed until the results of Monthly Schedule Preferencing for the next Bid Period are available to the trip-trading system."

Whenever that is!

When are the fo schedules coming out?

NLT 2359CT today.

"The end-of-month trade freeze will be lifted December 19 at 1800 CDT. This is delayed 24 hours due to the late closing of the PBS bid this month."