Whatever happened to "priming the pump" for open time? Guys have complained before about not getting a sweet trip on a VTO and then seeing it in open time.

The answer was always "Skeds keeps some trips to prime the pump when trip trading starts."

I guess not anymore. On the MD-11 FO side, with 2 minutes to go there is one (1) trip in open time after 4 Aug. I guess that pump doesn't need priming after all.