Originally Posted by theUpsideDown

Its outside the contract and if there's a time when this company goes the other way, promises from scheduling aren't always honored by the company, and the union won't get it for you because they can't.

There's three phases of "lets make a deal pilots". 1. Euphoria, they found a way to work the system and it's like a little zip of money or time off in their pocket. 2. Addict, out of control wheeling and dealing, even their schedule is fungible, where they trade up and up and someone notices they're getting honked by a junior pilot or a pilot not using FLICA so they complain 3. Depression and anger, now the company won't make deals and can't figure out why, the job sucks now because the high was really the outside the contract dealing and start a facebook group to work through your anger.