From recent 171 update

TRIP TRADE SYSTEM

Your representatives have been inundated with calls from pilots expressing frustration about the new Trip Trade System. The most common question has been regarding absence of the Trip Advertisement function. Your reps have communicated your frustration to the MEC Chairman and IAH Chief Pilot’s Office. The common answer given is: It’s being worked on. However, we don’t know when restoration of the Trip Advertisement function will be complete.

The Trip Advertisement function offered an invaluable convenience for a pilot to enhance their monthly schedule by advertising a trip for straight pick-up or mutual trade. This function was not relinquished during negotiations of the UPA.

Sometimes the squeaky wheel gets the attention! Let your frustration be known. We are confident that if all 2373 LC 171 Pilots (IAH) were to communicate, through email, their frustration with the absence of the Trip Trade function, restoration of that function would come sooner rather than later.