I guess I am confused. What is wrong with dropping the trips you have? Have you ever dropped your entire line for the chance for something better? Willing to risk a $0 paycheck. I have. I got a wonderful vto last jan and got nothing I asked for but a guy 40 vto's junior got exactly what I asked for. So, I dropped my entire month and did the 0700 sick call uncle pervy stare at open time every day. A 12 day trip dropped and I was fortunate to get it. It was something way out of my seniority. Gotta be able to risk it to get it, I guess. I have flown with J.S. Curious how many times a day you check open time? I bet he has over 200 a day. Not for everyone, but if he wants to, who cares. If his line is clean, there aren't mixed banks, trip conflicts and trade submissions that require 10 trips typed in. A single m/u request of one trip takes about 5 secs.

I do agree that the system is broken. There are some that are doing some things that are questionable. Management has spoken to what I call the fab 5 and a number of others and no discipline was passed out. Under our current regime, I find it hard to believe they would pass up a chance to thump anyone that they thought was dirty.

I suggest trying his method for a month. Drop all your trips right out of the chute and spend every waking moment on PFC. IF you don't want to, cool, but don't give him grief for it, unless there is some other way which he is getting the trips(i.e. insider info, bot program, or getting the scheduler to process the trades out of order). With him, I don't believe to be the case. I do know that this is being very closely looked at still and if one is willing to risk their future on it, roll the bones!