Originally Posted by
Master of FiFi
The answer is no. As in "no coverage". You can trade trips starting on the same day or for more days, but you cant trade trips for different days.
When line holders say that dropping the reserve part of the extension doesn't affect them, I tell them that this is how it does. My buddy at Delta says they can drop and move whatever they want because they went after the company about this no coverage non sense. In September, DCA320 FO, 30 reserves in a base of 120 pilots, but no coverage? Please...
This issue has nothing to do with the extension, as trip trading was never one of the items to be discussed. It's not a "reserve improvement". It's a line holder improvement.
To the OP, it's worth mentioning that you should ALWAYS put in what you want. It can get very complex but one open trip can trigger 4-5 trades. The more people that play in the system, the better the chance of it opening up. I've had success trading a 4 day for a 2 day on different days. I've had a trip that I wanted to pick up go to a pilot junior to me because of "branching", which means that some pilot senior to me put in a trade which only worked by giving the pilot junior to me "my" ID as part of a 5 person trade. And then I've had a 1 day trip that I can't get rid of for all the tea in China with plenty of reserves available. It's a weird system that could use some tweaking for sure. But ALWAYS put in what you want.