Originally Posted by
gettinbumped
Welcome to United! It's been that way for LUAL for YEARS. What's more, since all Real Time Trip Trades are subject to crew desk approval, you can pretty much assume that your ONLY hope of trip trading is the same or better number of days, same start date, before about 7am the day prior to the trip, AND you'd better be senior.
So much for the "LUAL was overstaffed" theory.
When the company won't let pilots drop trips because they don't have enough manpower, or are worried about enough manpower, they aren't overstaffed.