Long long ago, in a land far far away, if management were to fly a trip, a line pilot got paid because it was in open time and had to be assigned to a line pilot and THEN management would bump. Because a portion of this routing is being treated as non-revenue (I assume, although it shows as a charter) apparently management can fly it without it having been available to a line pilot. Plus, all the training/management pilots are clearly more qualified to fly a trip to a new city.
Flt 9738 of 09 May