Originally Posted by clubord

Bad day, worse day is something that we had at CO and it was fantastic for moving trips. My quality of life in the was so much better when we had that. I think most old CAL guys here would agree.

Here's the gist of it: Lets say I had a 3 day trip on 28th I wanted to move. I would call crew scheduling and trade for any 3+ day trip in open time earlier in the month as long as the reserve coverage was better on the 28th than the days I wanted.

If we used today for example, 03/18/15. There is going to be significantly less reserves the next few days than on 03/28/15. So I'd be able to trade into any trip those days and drop the trip I didn't want later in the month.

With PBS I would try to bid days off earlier in the month and back load my schedule at the end of the month to work more knowing I could move a trip forward at some point increasing hours and/or improving commutability.