June '10 Bid's Award & Reason Report

My strategy paid off and my award is more of what I want!

I received 104 hours of credit and 11 days off. Not exactly beautiful, but it is far better than I was expecting from June (see Juniority post)! My reason report is pretty consistent with what I am trying to accomplish too. I had two replaced/not-awarded...line constraints. And I hate line constraints. But these pairings being replaced allowed me two be awarded two more trips for more pay. Max Credit is the culprit in this situation and I could not be happier with him. In all, my bid solved at layer 5 which you can view on my Strategy post for the June bid. My layer 5 was only 21% of the total pairing pool! This would indicate that most people senior to me aren't bidding for these type of trips. Which, I didn't even include locals in my bid until layer 7 so my guess would be that the majority of folks senior to me are bidding locals and the occasional high paying multi-day trips. At this point I have a firm grasp of how to bid in my domicile although with the way things are going I, and many other, may have to transfer to DEN before too long.