PrefBid will give me a better schedule because it honors seniority. SmartPref globalizes and will give me one or more trips that the "approximate logic" chooses.
My MEC did their homework and picked the best PBS several years ago. Two years of bidding and a happy pilot group is my proof. What's yours?
SmartPref has NO negotiated rules to protect your pilots. Quit your childish personal attacks. It's evidence that you can't address the issues. The more you post, the more apparent it becomes that you lack any meaningful knowledge. You are just parroting what someone else has told you. The sad part, is if you ever find out what the globalization will do to you, it wll be too late. For testimonials, ask a Continental Pilot or a SkyWest pilot about Globalization. Results cannot be explained.
Give the link to the system rules. You can't because there are none. SmartPref is no better than what the Continental Pilots are using. It's marketing spin is false.
There is no such thing as live bidding, and there is not one PBS that can make the claim. The GUI is Fool's Gold. What you see will constantly change through the bidding process. In the last hours of bidding, with the high volume of activity, your representative schedule will go through a metamorphosis. SmartPref will not be able to give accurate information the last few hours because it will bogg down and the award engine will not be able to keep up with the high volume of bidder input.