Originally Posted by
APC225
Or at least more than 1%.
20-P-4-b If immediately prior to the first run of the trip-trading system the pay value of all Open Trips in a Category is less than one percent (1%) of the pay value of all Trips available for awarding in Monthly Schedule Preferencing for that Category, the Company shall allow enough Trip drops in that first run so that the pay value of those dropped Trips equal that difference (between one percent (1%) and the current Open Trips). The intent of this provision is to seed trip trading.
The problem with this is that if you are in a small category, say 100 pilots, that means there are probably 75 lines. So if that's 4 trips per line you have 300 trips, so if there are already 3 trips in open trading because of ALPA drops, training drops, etc then even the #1 pilot in base can't get a trip dropped because the 1% threshold is already there.
The 1% threshold is too low. It effectively allows for no trip dropping to repair PBS errors.