Originally Posted by
UALinIAH
It’s a huge win. I can’t tell you how many times I tried to pick up a trip someone wanted to drop but couldn’t because CrewCompanion said it wasn’t legal for the other guy to drop due to min hours. On my fleet there are always senior guys looking to drop day trips and fly low time. It also greatly affects wide body guys. Many fleets wouldn’t even be able to trade because of the way IT set up the trades.
It’s not just about doing straight drops. The company will always control min res level unless we can change that in section 6 negotiations.
So yeah it was a HUGE win for a majority of the pilot group vs a small give for the very small minority.
I'm not sure what fleet you're on, but here's a perspective from a narrow body guy. The ability to drop below 50hrs is a great QOL Improvement for the entire pilot group. With that being said, now that we can see the pool display the company has put the numbers at 0 basically everyday so straight drops are impossible. Before, when we couldn't see the pool, straight drops worked a majority of the time during non-peak flying season.
The situation you refer to, being able to pick up another pilots trip that drops them below 50 is great when it works for the both of you. It's net 0 for the company and both of you are happy. The problem I see, in which you refer to it being a "HUGE" win for the majority of the pilot group, is the fact you already have to have the days off to pick up another pilots trip. Maybe it's just in ORD, but most of our lines are built to 13-14 days off and 80-85 hours. So what happens is nothing can be dropped due to coverage and none of your trips will be picked up because no one has the time off to do it.
I would argue that the "majority" of the pilot group would like to do straight drops and the "minority" are the ones picking up other people's trips.