Originally Posted by
Sink r8
I think you are looking at the most innocent and beneficial aspect of OOBS, because you like them.
One could say the same about you looking at the most egregious aspect because you don't.
In any case, I'm not sold either way. I do know that other pilot groups, e.g., SWA, have it and like it.
Originally Posted by
Sink r8
There is nothing unrealistic about my argument: 1) the SB/SWF system allows pilots to privately steer open time to some, above WS pick-up limits, what I described as mining open time. 2) the OOBWS system allows some flying to be transferred between bases, but (thankfully) within pick-up limits for the pilots concerned, and 3) OOBS would allow greater transfer/mining of open time between bases, to a greater extent.
I'm not saying that it's not possible. I'm saying that I find it unlikely that a group of pilots would select one of their own to bid a base in which none of them wants to be in order to mine that base's trips, trips that they could all hold on their own were they each to bid there.
I agree that, to the extent of drops and pickups, some amount of time in one base would be flown by pilots in another base. The question is whether the "harm" in that is worse than allowing some pilots to drop trips they don't want and others to pick up flying when their category shows little to no open time.