BidBest Info & Updates

This is the home page for info and updates for BidBest. BidBest is a bidding program which allows you to use the Mac to prepare your monthly bid. You can quickly display individual trip pairings and sort and filter the lines in several ways. Once you have listed and arranged your bid choices, you can print them out as a guide to phoning in your bid, or save to disk and use the included BidBuilder program to create an HTML form that you can use to send your bid to pilot.fedex.com all at once.

Current filters for BidBest include: Current Sorts include:
  • Layover City
  • Contains Pairing
  • Days Off
  • Layover Length
  • Contains Out-and-Backs
  • Contains Deadheads
  • First Duty Period (# of legs, arr. time at layover)
  • Has Standby Period
  • Hub City
  • Minimum Credit Hours Per Week
  • Report Time
  • Pairing Start Day
  • Max BLG
  • Max Carryover
  • Max BLG + Carryover
  • Max Days Off
  • Minimum Block Hours
  • Minimum TAFB
  • Minimum # of Departures
  • Minimum Number of Landings
  • Max 2-Day Trips
  • Max Weekend Trips
  • Max Deadhead Trips

Demo version: OS 9 PowerPC only. Will NOT run on OS X unless your Mac can run "Classic" applications.  Download demo.

BidBest is supported by user donations. If you want to try it out, please email me at the address below.

What's New

The March bid packs may include pairings with four-digit pairing numbers, for example: 1022. Version 1.8 should be able to parse this new format.

Latest version of BidBest: 1.8 (1/28/07)
Download BidBest v. 1.8 Updater for PPC Mac (requires that you already have an authorized version on your Mac)

Contact Info

Shef Worboys, MEM 727 Captain
sworboys at bellsouth.net (substitute '@' for ' at ')