December '09 Bid's Nuts and Bolts

As you can see on the bid info page, COS is now has a "C" package and is guaranteeing 54 lines, shooting for 57 and will have 10 reserve lines. As compared to last month when we had an "A" package with 49 lines guaranteed, shooting for 58, and 9 reserve line. 

This month we have: (for flight attendants)

• 474 Total trips
• 282 Locals
• 52 Two-day trips
• 55 Three-day trips
• 85 Four-day trips

190 of the pairings are on the CJR200 and 284 of the pairings are on the CRJ700out of those only a few '200 locals are on the Delta side and only one four-day trip flows through Delta.

Compare all that to November when we had:

• 412 Total trips
• 213 Locals
• 62 Two-day trips
• 37 Three-day trips
• 100 Four-day trips
• 200 trips are on the CRJ-200 and 212 are on the CRJ-700.

Easy to see the increase to locals and to the three-day trips. Plus the subtraction of two-day and four-day trips.

Like I have mentioned in earlier posts, December is something of a wild card month. While that will prove true for everyone bidding to have Christmas and New Years Eve off, if you're junior, I suggest you include trips you would want to fly over Christmas in your lower layers to stay safe from receiving a bad PN'ed or CN'ed trip.