Originally Posted by
busdriver12
So it seems like the only way someone could do this is either with a bot program that automatically picked up charters, or if the people who released the charter (not regular crew schedules, but futures or whomever built them) called someone right before the release, told them the info and said--press the button now. Or did it for them. Seems like that would be incredibly easy to trace, with a track record of years.
Yes you would think this would be easily traceable. What I have seen in the last few months with frozen trips is
1) either the unfreeze & fill instantly which hints of complicity
Or
2) relatively quick processing of open time with normal trips but the minute a charter/really good extra hits (not a frozen trip) the OT processing will stop for sometimes over an hour. Which says to me I'm holding this trip till my buddy can put in an OTP request jump the line and time stamp you..maybe he's unavailable, flying etc. I have on more than one occasion heard the excuse the scheduler went to the restroom/on break and will get to it when he gets back
Option 1 is hard to solve as it's hard to prove, option 2 is solved with real time trip trading