Originally Posted by crewdawg52

I'll bet anything that they won't do away with open time. Right now, there are 4 pages of open trips on the DTW A320 f/0 board. 13 trips departing 8-12 march alone. Last month, they were calling up captains to sit in the f/0 seat to fly some trips. It's not the schedulers fault. That's how NWA works. It's cheaper to use reserves and let pilots to pick from the open board than to "rehire" furloughed pilots. I don't like it, but that how things are done.