I get my drop requests approved nearly 100% of the time. Entire trips, turns, individual days, and even Reserve days when I bid RSV.

This is in the DFW base. Not sure how staffing levels are in other bases.

Buddies,

In fact we do know what the staffing requirement is for droping trips. Swaps and Drops needs to look at any and all trips that touch the day you want dropped, subtract from the number of available reserves and still have at least 40.

So 40 reserves is the magic number. Remember this takes into consideration not only the number of open trips on the day you are attempting to drop but also trips that touch your day.

Many times I have had a drop request denied due to staffing only to be approved a week or two later as staffing levels change.