Originally Posted by Free Flyer

Your rant is exactly correct. And I should know, because I bid reserve for this specific reason rather than be a junior line holder. The system is flawed and I'll tell you why.

They allow us reserves to aggressively grab trips and block them from lineholders and this is how we on reserve can cherry pick the open pairings and get the good stuff.

There is no way on this green earth that I should be getting the Hong Kong trips (31:35 hour 4 day), but I do and I should be getting all of the London (20:00 hour 4 days) in EWR.

How do we solve this or why should we? I'll tell you why, because it's not fair to the lineholders or senior pilots who can't trade their garbage trips for a better one while a reservist like myself comes along and nails the premium pairings. Someday I will be a solid lineholder and I won't like it when the junior reserves get the good trips, so let's fix it now and spread the love where it should be. Some of you senior folks have put up with more years of crap than I have been on property, so rightfully, you should get the good trips.

How do we solve it? Talk to the union and see if they can't set up another trip trade run that runs at 10:30am local for the lineholders. That way you get one last shot at a trade before we reservists aggressively grab them at 11:00am local.

Just trying to keep it real and be fair.