Originally Posted by
Mister Nobody
It is my guess is that they have a PMU code. The longer a trip sits in Open Time the better chance someone with a PMU code has to get the trip vice a normal trip trade request. If CRS cannot process requests in a timely manner, anything less than a couple of minutes, then the PMU system becomes unfair for the "general population" pilots that are trying to improve their QOL through trip trades.
I'm not really a fan of the PMU concept and have never had the option. That said, isn't the whole point of PMU being accomplished if those folks with PMU
are getting the trips ahead of the "general population"? How are you seeing that as "unfair"? It sounds like you want CRS to process trips so quickly that pilots with PMU find that option essentially useless and the whole thing reverts to first come-first served. Then the PMU people would be crying "unfair".
IMO, once general trip trading is open, it should be first come-first served and it obviously needs to be real time. Let the PMU folks cherry pick prior to that. Until that happens, I really don't think you have much of a leg to stand on.