How AeroSlate analyzes your bid pack.
A pairing score is an estimate of how well a trip fits you. 0 to 100, across pay, lifestyle, commute, fatigue, and operational upside. Here's how the whole thing works, start to finish.
Only your base and fleet are needed before you upload. Everything else you can set or change anytime.
Set your pilot profile
Your base and fleet tell AeroSlate which pairings to read; your commute airports feed the commute score.
Upload your bid pack
Drop in the monthly PDF. Every pairing is parsed: credit, block, TAFB, legs, layovers, and redeyes.
Tune to your rules, anytime
Hard constraints filter out trips you'd never fly. Soft preferences and your availability calendar refine the ranking, applied instantly, no re-upload.
Score and rank
Pick a strategy and order your preferences. Every trip is scored and the list re-ranks to match how you bid this month.
Favorite and export
Star the trips you want and export your bid list in PBS-style order, CSV, or plain text.
Your month at a glance
Drop in your monthly bid pack and Sora reads it cover to cover, every pairing, every leg, every layover. Filter by what matters: layover length, trip length, legs per day, redeye policy, report and release times, and the cities you'd rather skip.
The 9 strategies score each trip across pay efficiency, lifestyle, commute, fatigue, and IRROPS upside. Pick the strategy that matches how you bid this month and see the ranked list in seconds.
- •Parse every pairing: credit, block, TAFB, deadhead legs, layover cities
- •9 scoring strategies + 9 preferences you rank in priority order
- •Hard constraints: trip length, legs per day, layover length, report/release windows, redeye policy, blacklisted cities
- •Availability calendar: mark days you can't, want to avoid, or prefer to work
- •Dashboard, favorites, and PBS-style / CSV / text export
Spot patterns over time
Saga remembers every bid you submitted, every trip you were awarded, and every one that went junior to you. Over months it builds a picture of how your seniority moves, where you actually flew, and which patterns repeat.
The most useful question Saga answers: did the bid I just submitted look anything like the one that worked last quarter?
- •Monthly credit hours flown · year-over-year
- •Award history per pairing · which trips you bid and which you got
- •Seniority movement over time
- •Compare this month's bid to past months
Five ways to read a trip.
Every pairing scored across five independent dimensions. Pick a strategy and AeroSlate weighs them to your preferences.
Your strategy sets the baseline; your preferences refine it. New to the terms?
Pay efficiency
Trip rig (credit per TAFB hour) plus credit per duty day. Rewards trips that pay for the time you put in.
Lifestyle
Schedule quality. Penalizes early reports, late finishes, red-eyes, and short layovers.
Commute
How reachable the trip is from your home base. Buffers for inbound and outbound commute legs.
Fatigue
FDP vs max FDP, leg count per duty, short layovers, red-eye exposure. Low number = harder month.
IRROPS upside
Operational-upside exposure: congested and weather-prone airports where premium pay tends to surface.
9 preset strategies
MaxPay, BestLifestyle, Commutable, LowFatigue, HighIRROPS, HighCreditLowTAFB, AvoidEarlyReports, LayoverQuality, Balanced.
9 ranked preferences
Layover window, favorite cities, check-in and release windows, per-duty report and release windows, legs per day, redeye policy, and average layover. Order them and AeroSlate weights the ranking to your priorities.
Availability calendar
Mark days you can't work (hard-excluded), or days you'd prefer or avoid (soft nudge). Trips are ranked around the month you actually want.
Questions pilots ask
How do I analyze my bid pack?+
Upload the monthly bid-pack PDF you already get from crew scheduling. AeroSlate reads every pairing (credit, block, TAFB, legs, layovers, redeyes) and builds a ranked, filterable list in seconds.
What is a pairing score?+
A pairing score is an estimate of how well a trip fits you, on a 0–100 scale across five dimensions: pay efficiency, lifestyle, commute, fatigue, and IRROPS upside. You pick a strategy that weights those dimensions, and your own preferences refine the ranking.
Can I export to PBS?+
Yes. Favorite the trips you want and export your bid list in a PBS-style order, or as CSV or plain text.
Do I need to set everything up before I upload?+
No. Only your base and fleet are needed for an accurate parse. Constraints, preferences, and your availability calendar are applied at read time, so you can set or change them anytime without re-uploading.
Is my data private?+
Your raw bid-pack PDF is deleted after parsing by default. You can choose to keep it or set a retention window in your account settings.
Does AeroSlate guarantee I will be awarded a trip?+
No. AeroSlate estimates and ranks trips to help you bid deliberately. It does not predict or guarantee award outcomes, pay, or seniority results, and it is not affiliated with any airline. Always follow your company, FAR, and PWA/CBA guidance.