Bidding for Reserve Just Got a Lot More Interesting.

Effective for the March 2013 bid, bidding reserve. This is going to be interesting!

Well, for flight attendants at least. Pilots will most likely receive the option soon, but the hang up is likely the long call reserve feature for pilots.

Flight attendants, bidding reserve, will be able to bid for days off finally. "Hard" reserve lines are a thing of the past. With that, the only PBS hard lines are in the DEN ASE pilot system.

I've uploaded the PDF that has the instructions and a Q & A. Let me know if you use it, I'd love to get more information on strategies and such.

Bidding Reserve 

How to Bid

It has been said that the number one contributor (besides seniority) to your happiness as a crew member at SkyWest is the efficient use of PBS. I completely agree with that. This blog has been less instructional than one might imagine, until now. When I first started blogging I originally intended this to be self serving. That changed when I realized the potential for the blog to assist anyone who wanted a little more help. Now that I have a few years worth of posts about how I bid I think it is time that I describe the basic mechanics of how one bids. For those of you who are new to bidding in SkyWest, this post is for you.

If you browse around this blog you will find that, primarily, I have shown how I bid and the results.  There are two main reasons for that. First of all the benefits of keeping a journal are invaluable and I encourage you to journal as well. Journalism is an easy way to remember past mistakes. The knowledge you gain by keeping a journal is truly priceless, especially when we bid only 12 times a year. Secondly, posting my bidding errors... blunders... may help you. I am not too proud to say that I goof up more than the average guy. Hopefully, you will find my mistakes to be helpful.