Originally Posted by
rickt86
The lack of open time. Due to training, transition, and vacation conflicts, we end up with a good amount of open time after bids close with the paper bid system. In the summer time it means REALLY good trips in open time, since that's when senior guys have vacation. I do really good with trip trading. I take me crap 13 day off 4 day trip all weekend, worth 18 hour each, and 73 hours total and trade it into good trips with partial weekends off worth 98 hours. My Dad has PBS at United and he has nothing in open time ever, hes stuck with what he gets.
Good point. I notice most our open time is high speeds or stand ups. Nothing really there to help fix your schedule. Our schedulers used to "hide" good trips on reserve pilots so we couldn't see them.