Originally Posted by
Alan Shore
Got it. I was thinking that this was a one-way base swap where a single FA goes to another base for a month. You're right -- in a one-for-one swap, there would be no benefit to management.
That said, I would think it's a much broader and wholesale version of these two pilots swapping single trips off the Swap Board. It that's so bad, why is this OK?
I'm not necessarily saying it is OK. I was just wondering what others might think about it and if it warranted further discussion. The way the FA talked about it, it was a way to go do something different for awhile. She said there were restrictions like you could only do it two months in a row, and not during vacation months.. things like that. You could put a restriction on it like you could only do it 1 time/year, or only once with the same pilot ever. I guess the potential for abuse on some level is always there, and like I said in the original post, I am sure some kind of buddy buddy network would pop up. It just seemed a little interesting, that's all.