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Old 09-24-2018, 11:41 PM
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Flightcap
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Originally Posted by symbian simian View Post
Crew scheduling is required to have 75% of the days "green" (more reserves available than required) before trip trading starts. This means you can normally drop any trip (no, not Xmas) you don't want to fly. At SWA you can only put your trip in trip trade/giveaway and hope someone else will pick it up. Still doesn't make up for the insane difference in pay/culture/efficiency.
This. And the kicker is that in order to do that they have to reduce the desired reserve margin across the entire month until 75% are green. The result is very high reserve surplus above the margin for days that already had adequate staffing. Fourteen hours into Daily Open Time my base still has 28 green days in October. Requests are still being processed though so we'll see about my drop....!
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