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The Day Expansion Feature
The
Day Expansion Feature allows you to apply certain criteria, such as
a check-in or arrival time, or a particular layover city, to
any one specific day only with out affecting the rest of your
criteria.
To begin, click on the desired day on the calendar with
the right mouse button. You will be presented
with the Day Expansion dialog box.
In this example, we will use the layover location. Click
on the down arrow to expose the list of layover cities that are
specific to this domicile. We will use SFO as our layover
city.
Now scroll to find the desired city. Once you locate the
city, simply click on it to enter it into the layover location
box.
Click OK once you have
finished. You will then see that the Day Expansion feature has been
engaged and is indicated by a small line directly above the date to
which it is applied. In this example, we have also indicated that
this day (the 13th) is to be a day on as well by double clicking on it
and turning it blue.
This is the only criteria that we will enter. Now when
you click on the Search button, the program will only produce those
lines that have a layover in SFO on the 13th.
Once the search is finished (in about 1 second), you can
then click on theView button at the bottom to see the results. Here
are the results of the search. Let's start at the top of this
graphic. You are looking at the left half of the normal
Review and Edit screen
. The
numbers 63, 87, 110, etc are the resulting line numbers for our
search. When we click on Line 63 it turns blue,
and displays the entire Line 63 in the middle
window. We are looking at the 1st half of line 63 in the
middle. The arrow cursor is pointing at ID# 3170 on the 13th. When
we click on the ID itself, it turns red and displays ID#3170 in its
entirety in the bottom window. Please note that there is a layover
in SFO on the 13th just as requested. If you were to click on any of
the other line numbers at the top, they too would contain IDs with
layovers in SFO on the 13th.
You could also add some additional criteria and make this
a non-stop as well by requesting only 1 leg per day. Additionally,
you could request all lines with a minimum layover time of say 17
hours. You could also say that you don't want any all-nighters. The
more criteria you add, the smaller the number of lines that will fit
it. But you can see just how specific you can get with
BidPlus!
This feature can also be applied to check-in and arrival
times for a specific day.
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