Originally Posted by
SUX4U
United recently put into place a 50 hour floor of flying/non flying credit. It has really had a negative impact on trading/dropping trips. A lot of pilots, myself included would drop down to 30ish hours and then as the month goes on pick up/trade into trips that worked better for whatever reasons, be it more productive trips, better report/release, etc.
50 hours has been the floor at UAL for my 25+ years. Due to an IT glitch, it was possible to drop below 50 hours ... I did this a few times over the last few years down to about 35 hours. While we are an 'IT company with wings', the IT part was not fixed until recently. As a wide body F/O it is still possible to drop down toward 50 hours. It helps if you have the seniority to bid desirable flying trips on desirable days of the week. There is always some one looking for a 3 day. Would probably be tough narrow body domestic ... Certainly in the summer. YMMV