Set up your month.
Everything to start your bid, on one page. Your seniority is already set from the roster. Fill this in, then open your 175 real September trips. Tap any ? for help.
1 · BID MONTH?
Category & base auto-load from your seniority record:
LAX · 737 · First Officer (LAX 73N B)
Not on the master list? (new hire / returning from LOA) — set base & category manually?
Off-list bidders aren't in the roster yet, so seniority defaults to the bottom until you're added. Bid still builds.
2 · ARE YOU A COMMUTER??
From → base LAX · two-flight rule
Any US domestic airport — type the 3-letter code or city name.
3 · YOUR SENIORITY?
Real standing: 104 / 105 (99%), Aug 2026 roster. Slide only to explore.
4 · PRIORITIES — RANK THEM?
5 · DAYS YOU MUST HAVE OFF — SEP?
Tap dates to lock off. They become hard constraints in every layer of your bid.
6 · OR JUST DESCRIBE IT?
Type your ideal month in plain English — it becomes bid chips you can review, and everything lands in the Bid Builder.
open Bid Builder →
RESERVE — BID YOUR DAYS OFF?
At 104 / 105 you'll likely be on reserve. Bid the days you want off, in priority order — PBS honors preferences top-down. Full line ≈ 13 X-days off · max 5 blocks · 6 golden.
1 · Tap specific days off (ranked by tap order):
Golden ⭐ (hard off, iCrew) — tap up to 6 of your days, ranked:?
2 · Priority blocks & recurring days off:
Block→
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Weekends
3 · Conditions:
Then: shop trips → compare favorites → build the bid → paste into N-PBS. Check Progression anytime. Use the left nav to move between these; your setup here stays put.
SORT?
Best Match
Max Days Off
Credit / Day
Commute
Rig
Fewest legs?
Deadheads?
FILTER?
Len?
1D2D3D4D5D
✓ Within reach?
Commutable?
⚡ Optimal commute?
⌂ Home same-day?
No red-eyes
★ Favorites (0)?
⚙ Setup
★ 0 favorites shortlisted sort them, then target the keepers
| ★ | SCORE | FEAS? | COMMUTE | PAIRING | LEN | DATES | LEGS | L/D | LAYOVERS | CR/DAY | CREDIT | RIG | RPT | RLS | W/E | RE | DH | TAFB |
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YOUR SENIORITY?
Home MCI → LAX
PRIORITIES — RANK?
COMMUTE PROFILE
Home MCI → Base LAX
Policy: two-flight rule?
Sample schedule (live feed pending)
Policy: two-flight rule?
Sample schedule (live feed pending)
CALENDAR — SEP?
Tap dates to lock off. Open any trip and its days appear here.
FAVORITES & TARGETS
★ Favorites are your shortlist — they don't bid. ◎ Targets are what your bid actually asks for, in rank order. Click a column to sort; click a trip to expand its full detail and commute plan right here (click again to close); use the buttons to promote or drop.
| TYPE | SCORE | FEAS | COMMUTE | PAIRING | LEN | DATES | L/D | LAYOVERS | CR/DAY | CREDIT | RIG | RPT | RLS | ACTIONS |
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MUST — HARD CONSTRAINTS?
PREFER — RANKED?
OR JUST DESCRIBE IT?
DREAM MONTH — TARGETED TRIPS?
How should your targets bid?
pick trips on the Trips page → (★ Target on any trip) · ‹ › ranks them — first = most wanted
COMPILED N-PBS LAYERS?
deterministic?
HOW TO ENTER THIS IN N-PBS
RESERVE BID GROUP — YOUR SAFETY NET?
edit reserve days ↗PBS runs your Pairing Bid Group above first. If it can't build you a line at your seniority, this group shapes the reserve line you get instead — at 104/105, this is the part of the bid most likely to decide your month.
⚠
Schedule change (sample): DL1445 MCI→LAX 0710 → 0655 eff Oct 1.
Re-grades tighten margins on early-report trips. Live feed wires in with AeroDataBox.
MY AWARDED MONTH — SEPTEMBER?
awards post the 17thWhen your award posts, enter your awarded pairing numbers — or RESERVE — and this becomes your commute playbook for the month: which day you fly in, which day you fly home, the best flight each way, and your total time spent commuting.
YOUR COMMUTE — MCI ⇄ LAX (base)
home ⇄ baseYour real flight options to base (morning of a trip's report) and home (after release), plus the September days you'd actually commute for the trips you've starred or targeted. On-time % is sample until the live feed wires in.
→ TO BASE · MCI→LAX · morning of report
| FLIGHT | DEP MCI | ARR LAX | ON-TIME? | P85? |
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← HOME · LAX→MCI · after release
| FLIGHT | DEP LAX | ARR MCI | ON-TIME? |
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PLANNING — COMMUTE DAYS FOR TRIPS YOU'RE SHOPPING?
Grades blend each trip's real report/release against these flights and Delta's two-flight rule. Star ☆ or target ★ trips on the Trips page to populate this table. Once awards post, your awarded month above is the one that matters.
SENIORITY PROGRESSION — LAX 73N B?
Your category percentile over time (lower = more senior). Built from real retirement dates, plus your assumptions for hiring and upgrades. Reserve line and the "hold weekends" band come from the award data.
ASSUMPTIONS?
Upgrades = pilots ahead of you leaving the category for Captain or another fleet/base. In-category retirements alone barely move a junior FO (only 1 senior ahead of you retires within 5 years), so these two levers do the work.
RUMORED FUTURE CLASS?
Add a rumored hiring class into your category (numbers below you = your percentile improves). Adjust as rumors firm up.
HISTORIC BIDS
Every bid you save (the “Save & see my trips” button) is archived here by month — signed-in bids sync to your account; demo bids live on this device. Load any of them back into the builder as your starting point.
PERFORMANCE — AWARD DATA
What your category actually awarded, and (as your account accumulates award history) how your own bids performed against it.
YOUR CATEGORY — LAX 73N B
YOUR AWARDS
OPTIMIZATION STRATEGIES
Claude reads your seniority, commute, current preferences, and the category's award reality, and proposes concrete bid strategies. Each one has an Apply to current bid button — nothing changes until you apply it, and everything it changes is visible in the Bid Builder.
Tap “Generate with Claude” to get strategies built from your live bid, seniority, and category data. Deeper optimization — which pairings actually go senior, how your past bids performed — unlocks automatically as award data accrues.
You
My profile
Base · fleet · seat pick your bid package; system # sets your real standing in the category. Everything re-loads automatically after save.
Seniority
System #17801 · category LAX73NB · rank 104 / 105 (99.0% from top, Aug 2026 list). Percentile computed from the real category roster in the backend.
System #17801 · category LAX73NB · rank 104 / 105 (99.0% from top, Aug 2026 list). Percentile computed from the real category roster in the backend.
Membership beta — free
WidgetBid is free during the beta. When billing turns on, your account keeps working and you'll choose a plan here — first month free, cancel anytime in one tap.
Reserve reality (last 3 months)
Data & posture
Real Sept LAX 73N pairings + Jun-Aug LAX73NB awards + Aug system roster (names/employee IDs stripped). Not affiliated with or endorsed by any airline. No credentials collected, no automation into N-PBS. Not a guarantee of any award.
Real Sept LAX 73N pairings + Jun-Aug LAX73NB awards + Aug system roster (names/employee IDs stripped). Not affiliated with or endorsed by any airline. No credentials collected, no automation into N-PBS. Not a guarantee of any award.
Security & session
ADMIN — WIDGETBID OPERATIONS
ACCOUNTS
Every account, verification state, and membership. Suspend locks the account out of data (two taps — first tap arms).
PACKAGE LIBRARY
Categories live in the database — loaded by the desktop ingest workflow (founder) or pilot uploads (contributed, invariant-validated server-side).