Recent BALPA newsletter article re Bidline 2017....
Bidline 2017
When BIdline 2017 is in place, Final Assign (FA) and Draft Assign (DA) will be REMOVED from the rules completely. Your final roster, when published, will be unchanged by any further assignments. The publication date of final rosters will be a lot earlier than now - approximately 14 days before the start of the month.
We have listed below a number of significant BLR 2017 headlines:
No Final Assign / Draft Assign
Final rosters- at least 14 days before the start of the month
Stage 1 bidding process unchanged
IB2a bidding- fully automated process - more powerful than the current “one trip at a time”
IB2a bid
- bids for trips AND days off
- “generalised” bids (e.g. “any 3 day trip”, “any day trip”, “prefer late starts”, “prefer destination XXX")
- “avoid” bids (e.g. “avoid early starts”, “avoid trips greater than 3 days”, “avoid destination XXX”)
- “offer” parts of your IB1 tripline into the IB2a process to seek a better trip / days off outcome at IB2a
- bids to protect certain trips / days off
Blindline bidding:
- fully automatic “optimising" blindline builder
- same range of bids allowed as IB2a (see above)