Originally Posted by
DLpilot
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I agree completely. Another issue is that not all LCA trips are actually used for training. Also, quite a few LCA swap their trips around after the initial bid comes out. Withholding trips hurts all the first officers in a category not just senior guys because there are less trips in the pot overall for bidding.
Great point. What if the trip were withheld, then CA swaps it out. Someone else flying it and you didn't even have a chance to bid it. Or they say LCAs can not swap trips. Lots of hypothetical cases and none of them are good. Like I said, I've never done one but this is an auto no for me as well.