Originally Posted by
BenderRodriguez
What's the mystery? You fly it, you get paid. You trade it to someone else, THEY get paid. The really hard part of this is that there would have to be a computer program written that would take into account all the FARs that come into play with us that do not with FAs. I actually think that is quite a daunting task.
JetBlue pilots have always had jetway trades. Worked great. If you gave anything away you lost any guarantee associated with what you gave up, and if you picked anything up, you got paid block.
They actually had a guy in MCO that came up with a program that would use jetway trades to reduce commutes. I know guys in MCO were using it and cutting out more than half of their commutes. Not sure how it worked, but anyone who wanted to participate emailed him their schedules then he put them into an excel program or something. It then spit out who should jetway trade with who to reduce the number of commutes they had.