Which term refers to the process of submitting monthly crew schedules?

• A. Bid
• B. Plan
• C. Schedule
• D. Vote

Answer: (A)

Submitting monthly crew schedules is done through bidding. In airline crew planning, crew members submit bids to express their preferences for trips, days off, and bases for the upcoming month. This bidding process is often ordered by seniority and runs during a defined period, after which the system assigns the actual monthly schedule based on those bids. So the key idea is that bid refers to the formal submission of preferences for future rosters. The plan is the intended coverage, not the submission itself; the schedule is the final roster produced from the process; voting isn’t the method used to allocate monthly crew rosters.