Originally Posted by
alaskadrifter
I'm not understanding the concept of dropping trips. Is it just unpaid time off? Does it come out of your vacation or sick time? Does it generally work the same for all airlines?
Thanks in advance.
No, you simply don't get paid for the value of that trip. IOW, if you start the month with an 80 hour calendar and drop a 20 hour trip, you are only going to get paid 60 hours.
The mechanics of how you drop it vary by airline, but generally the trip goes into a pool of "open time," to be picked up by another Lineholder or assigned to a reserve.