Okay, I'll do the math.

• 81% of the total trips in my category for October are 4-days.
• 27% of the total trips in my category for October are 4-days with weekends off.

In October we have an 83 hour ALV. Let's say LCA comprise 10% of the Captains and all of them bid 4 4-day weekends off trips and all of them are doing OE.

• That means of the available 4-day weekends off trips, 51% of them are at risk of being pulled, and 38% of them will be pulled and unavailable to be awarded.
• So instead of 27% of the trips being 4-day trips with weekends off, now you only have 16%.

So in the real world mix, the few 3-day trips will probably be gone early, nearly half the 4-days with weekends off would be gone before bidding started and that leaves FOs south of say 10-20% short changed. And that's if FO #1 didn't bid his/her favorite trip only to have it pulled.

Then it affects 100% of the FOs and it will really hurt in December, November and July. I don't think anyone wants to see 1 trip they bid for removed before the award process begins, much less 8% of the trips they bid on magically removed. And of that 8%, a good portion if not all of them are choice trips such as Christmas off, weekends off, etc.

It goes back to that ALPA saying that if you mess with a pilots pay, they'll get mad at you, mess with their schedule and they'll kill you.