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Bidding Overview
The BidPlus Millennium
Bidding Program is the cornerstone of the Millennium suite. This
is easily the most powerful, flexible, intuitive, productive,
and easy to use crew bidding program to be found anywhere. Check
out our online
video tutorial.
Please take a moment to understand the task at hand. Remember
when you first went through the bidding portion of your flight
attendant training? There was an entire week devoted to learning
how to bid. You may have forgotten because you have been doing
it for a while now. But regardless of how long you have been flying,
picking up your bids and then spending hours (or days) trying
to organize that amount of information is a monumental task.
We know. One of our designers is a 26 year UAL flight attendant.
So
here it is! BidPlus to the rescue! But wait a minute. Let's be
realistic. You don't really expect to be able to just sit down and
instantly understand a program that is designed to tackle a task
that took you a week to learn in the first place, do you? Think
about the process of bidding. Do you think you could explain it
all, including all of the strategies and rules, to your non-flying
neighbor in 15 minutes? Of course not!
But
never fear. We don't have thousands of happy, productive customers
for no reason! And they're working a lot less harder then you are.
And they're finishing faster, with more accuracy. And they know
their holiday pay, vacation pay, and paycheck amounts
automatically. How did they learn it? Well, the BidPlus
Millennium program is stuffed with a ridiculous amount of help
resources. First, there is our
Bidding Tutorial , which
walks you through an entire bid session using the included sample
bid package. We have also developed a
Knowledge Base , which
is a collection of very detailed help and color graphics, all
organized in a manner that makes your answers easy to find and
understand. And finally, inside of the Knowledge Base is our Trouble
Shooting Guide and Frequently Asked Answers.
So
if you are still doing your best to find an excuse (even though you
spent all that money on your computer), then you really must be a
masochist! Are you telling us that you have time to suffer through
and complain about this stuff every month, but you don't have an
afternoon to sit and learn something fun and useful? Forgive us if
we are having a hard time believing you.
Check it out!
If
you think about it, the process is really very simple. And it is
approached basically the same way that you do your paper bids. First
you pick up your bids. (In the program, that's called downloading -
takes about 3 mouse clicks. The bid package is delivered in about a
minute or less). Then you open your bid package (2 more clicks).
Then you tell the program what it is you would like to bid for
(selecting criteria - between 1 & 4 clicks, depending on what
you want). Then you instruct the program to search for those
particular Lines of Flying (1 click). Then you review those LOFs
(another click). Then you adjust your criteria (a couple more
clicks). Then you search for more lines (1 click). The you change
the order of those LOFs (editing - 2 or 3 clicks per
move). Then you add Reserve, RLF, and position bidding (2 or 3
clicks per feature). Then you send in your bids into United (3
clicks).
Stop us when we get to the hard part.
Each one of these steps is explained right here in
glorious detailed color. So what are you waiting for? Let's get
started! (Please don't make us come get you.)
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