At 5x we bid once a year but the sched is split in half so you can bid a different line (or relief) for the second half. We have a group of individuals who work really hard to organize the schedule based on option time off, vacation, missing desks..etc...works pretty well.
We also use ARIS/WorkNet for bidding and trades. My previous airline used Humanity (previously called Shiftplanning) for work schedules and trades, but bidding was still done on paper.
When I worked ramp at a regional outstation, we had the "refrigerator bid". A blank bid sheet was taped to the breakroom refrigerator and everyone wrote their name by the line they wanted in seniority order over the course of a week or so. Helped that we only had 16 employees..
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