[QUOTE=forgot to bid;1705673]The WS mafia, as some call it, is a senior group that bids good trips that are then placed on the swap board for straight pick up (or just PDd) and then their schedule is clear. Supposedly down to 0. Then they go back in and pick up good WS trips with low block and full credit. They want trips with the most CR and min TAFB and put themselves on short short call to get them. I've had 88As explain it to me, 88Bs are kind of coy about it when asked.

They WS until it becomes apparent that they should've GS'd but then they WS anyways. There is a lot of this.

A good day or two day trip comes up in open time you'll see it go very senior and very quickly. Ive talked to Captains who do it, their joke is if they get injured their spouse has been instructed to go back and pick up as much as possible before telling the company.

So yes, WSs are senior, in seniority order if they meet credit requirements. And guys will do it day after day back to back because their schedules are wide open. I think they, in times of no GS, can still score 100+ hours with little block. Are they playing with fire? Sure, at the end of the month they'll pick up less than ideal WS trips if short.

You do see that a lot but if you want to try it you better be senior.

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FTB,

I am not sure that I understand this. If these guys are senior why wouldn't they bid these trips initially? Why drop "good trips" to roll the dice with open time?

Are you saying that they drop/give away their trips down to a zero line so they can try to sharpshoot made-up trips with lots of credit and DH's that were not offered in the Bid package?

If this is what is going on wouldn't this help the Pilot group as a whole? It pumps thier original lines back into open time and they are trying to minimize the hard time that they fly - requiring more Pilots overall?

Scoop