I check open time all the time, and the only international trips I seem to get are to DTW and EWR. "Earlier time stamp" is my middle name. Yet one individual (MD11 FO) has the following...

CDG-MXP-MEM = 20.47
HNL -DH = 17.47
DH STN-DEL DH = 37.42
CDG-(DH) DXB-CAN-DH = 42.40

All of the above were Jan / Feb 14.

This is a miniscule snapshot of what this guy is doing. Before he was calendar blocking you could see he would regularly get 2 or 3 REALLY good deal trips every month. I'm lucky if I can snatch 1 or 2 a year.

Call it XTRA, call it open time, call it what you will, but this guy is not on the same playing field with all his peers.

There's a reason they block their calendars!