Originally Posted by
RockyBoy
Go easy on him. People on here harp on guys for even putting in GS's because if none of us did it then we would hire more. Then when everything melts down everyone throws in WS's, YS's, and out of base WS's. That's even worse because now the trips get covered for straight pay (free if a YS on an X day) when they would have been covered by GS's at premium pay.
While I agree a GSWC is rare, they do happen. I've done 2 and been here 7 years. Both in scenarios just like we are in now. When the robo calls for IA's go out the next option they have is GSWC or cancel the trip.
Letting guys out of base WS is BS because they shouldn't be able to take a trip out of a base they cannot bid into in the first place. They should be able to out of base GS because then everyone else in base has at least had a shot at the trip for straight pay and premium pay.
I don't understand why you didn't get the trip. It's my understanding that out of base white slips go out only if the trip is inside of 12 hours and only if no reserve has a YS in or a regular pilot has a WS in for it.
From what I was told, basically the only people the out of base white slips beat out are short call pilots.
I tried to out of base white slip a few months this year and found out that they weren't nearly as easy to get as I thought they would be.