Originally Posted by
Roadkill
here's a real question--sometimes a trip will show up in the B open time, and when you click on it to see who's flying it, it has a blank A spot, but still actually shows an FO assigned against it. Now, that's normal if it's a Q "qualified" drop showing up in open time, but these are NOT Q trips, just normal ones with no Q showing.
I'm thinking that if a trip can be dropped due to sufficient reserve coverage, the FO's name should not be assigned against it when it hits open time--my name never shows up when I drop a trip and see it in open time. So what are these non-Q trips I see in OT with an FO still listed? Anyone else notice these, usually about 5% of trips?
In my experience you may be seeing dynamic scheduling in action as the schedulers try test-fitting that rotation on a bunch of pilot's schedules to see how they work. Sometimes you see that on a greenslip callout where they are working down the list; they put it on someone's schedule, call him, wait the 10 minutes to see if he acknowledges, then put it on the next guy's schedule, call him, etc. You can watch the progress in open time as the name changes every 10 minutes until someone takes the trip. Its usually not going to show up on Trip Coverage page until acknowledged, but sometimes that shows a dynamic progress, too.