Can a New Hire Reserve FO based in ANC living in IAH try and work scheduling during days off for an assignment that sends them from Gateway to start a trip?
At my old company, the inside baseball secret, pimp the schedulers at the end of days off for an assignment out of the junior base and surprisingly it worked quite often (being polite helped, some fellas said flirting with the fatties in scheds always worked
Houston was always senior, so unless you worked a deal, you were jump seating early on last day off to be in position. I'd buy scheduling $50 in pizza every time I pulled off picking up a trip out of IAH til a CP called me on it and said "knock it off, they're fat enough in SOCC)