Originally Posted by 328dude

Electronic Line Improvement Trip Trade. It's actually spelled ELITT for short.

Just another system we use to trade trips around with the company and each other to improve our schedules by either picking up more or giving stuff away and flying less, thus opening up your schedule for extra pay trips/days off. You can move trips around, but it's not based on a day for day or hour for hour. For example, say you have a 3 day on the 5th,6th and 7th, you can trade it for another 3 day anywhere you want on any day if the trip is available say the 25th 26th and 27th. I just has to be the same amount of days for the most part, but occasionally you can trade a 3 day for a 2 day or a 4 day for a 3 day, but that get's more complicated and what most people are after when ELITT opens at 12 noon local time in each base. It's kind of hard to explain, just know that on the 25th of each month, it get's freaking crazy around on our intranet and most people are glued to their computer.

I've even seen guys use two computers at once trying to snag the better paying weekday trips or waiting for the net zero to change to a one (this is what allows you to trade trips from a 3 day to a 2 day etc and is based on total pilot productivity in each base. It's all first come first serve and changes every second. So using 2 computers allows you to refresh the page that much quicker.

Hope that helps, but you will learn it as you progress your career here.