Originally Posted by
Old UCAL CA
4. I do a lot of trip trading. As a junior lineholder, can you explain in simple terms what a "seniority based" trip trade system is going to look like?
This will be based on the L-UAL system, which allows pilots to enter criteria and conditions for trip trades. This will then be run in batches on a regular basis for each category. The “seniority based” portion means that if two pilots desire the same trade within that batch, the senior pilot gets the trade. The system can find complex branches that swap trips between large numbers of pilots with no regard to coverage. It's common to see as many as 12 pilots involved in one complicated swap.
This is a HUGE hit for the CAL pilots. Losing our current trip trading system to this system is just as bad as the current CAL reserve system. Once lost, we will never get this back. I consider this a monster concession. My four corners for a good contract have now become what are the four holes for this POS.