November '10 Bid's Strategy in Bidding and Christmas Tree:

Each month I offer my Strategy in Bidding and Christmas Tree. Both are necessary to determine how one should bid in a given month. For me, it takes a more critical look to determine I'm doing everything right. I have a friend of mine here in COS that realized earlier in the week that she had completed her bid without thinking about Thanksgiving or her Anniversary. Thankfully she caught it well before the 17th, but that is the sort of thing that happens. We forget about important events and plans easily, so taking a closer look is critical.

For the first time in my 4 years and 5 months at SkyWest, I've been awarded vacation time over a holiday. No working Thanksgiving for me! That makes my bid so easy. On top of that, we don't have a SIA meeting during Novemeber, it's scheduled for the first part of December so my bid just got real, real easy.