Originally Posted by
kronan
Real time trip trading eliminates the ability to use OTP to regain the pay lost due to substitution issues.
Rather than permitting the occasional glance at open time, it would require being chained to VIPS as the end of your pay protection approached.
Invalid reasoning when one considers the reality of our system. There is no restriction on any “non-OTP” method of picking up or trading into a particular trip. If the OTP pilot is flying, mowing his lawn, golfing and has no idea a trip is even in OT, his OTP does him no good. Someone can put in a general makeup request or trip trade and get that trip. It wouldn’t matter to the guy with OTP if it was done in real time or with our current system. Either way, the trip would be gone and he’d have no idea he missed the boat.
If OTP is the big concern, then have the folks with OTP put in general requests ahead of time with specific criteria for the days and types of trips they want that trump non OTP BLAs. That way they get anything that meets their wishes ahead of non-OTP requests. Everyone else is real time and everyone is happy.