Originally Posted by
BMEP100
Oh brother! Have you even considered how the vacation bidding system works now? And if you believe in seniority so absolutely, then you must believe that once awarded you own your position, trip, vacation.. or not eh Komrad?
The person may own it, but that implies he must use it and not sell it to someone else.
Read posts on this forum and other forums about how some pilots would use their seniority to pick up the best trips and then "sell them" to junior pilots. They owned them due to their seniority but then sold them to the highest biddding junior pilot and thus bypassed all those more senior pilots in between.
Thus no vacation swaps between pilots. Base trades are posted for a time to prohibit the same scenario for base trades.