Which term is defined as a schedule built by the company, which may consist of trips, reserve days, and days off?

• A. Bank
• B. Bid
• C. Calendar Day
• D. Configuration

Answer: (B)

Bids are used in airline scheduling to create the actual lineup a crew member will follow for a scheduling period. The company builds this schedule from the trips, reserve days, and days off that have been bid on by the crew, turning preferences into a concrete set of assignments. In this system, a bid represents the schedule you receive—the line that includes which trips you’ll fly and when you’ll be off. A bank is just a pool of trips not yet allocated, a calendar day is simply a date, and configuration is about how the roster is arranged rather than the specific assignments. So the schedule built by the company from bids is the bid.