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PREFBID

Preferential Bidding is a method of solving transportation workforce schedules consisting of specific flights and certain qualified crewmembers, or "Pairings", while allowing those crewmembers to request periodic work schedules using weighted preferences.

Preferential Bidding Systems, or PBS, as they are commonly referred to are generally used in the transportation industry and most often in the Airline industry to generate a satisfactory crewing solution. This is due to the enormous complexity of the problem that must be solved in those situations. The problem, from a mathematical and logistic approach is specific to the transportation workforce, and very complex due mainly to the personnel and aircraft movement from place to place. Moving crews and aircraft from place to place as efficiently as possible while both respecting crewmember preferences and while conforming to a number of rules and regulations requires very careful and thorough problem solving. Partly out of respect for this mathematic and logistic crewing challenge, the process of generating a PBS schedule that respects crewmember requests while remaining efficient is called "Problem Solving" in PBS. And the resulting schedule is called the "Solution". The general term for all methods of transportation workforce scheduling is often referred to as "Crew Rostering", or "Crewing". The results are often referred to as "Crewing Solutions"