Originally Posted by
PurpleToolBox
Respectfully disagree. Paragraph 1 is good and matches other airline standards. If you are removed from a trip, no matter why, you get paid and stay or go home.
GET RID OF THE LOTTERY / EARLIER TIMESTAMP CRAP.
We are NOT equal and people cheat. Have pilots enter requests for OT trip pickups and the scheduling computer four times a day computes by seniority and gives the senior person the trip — not the person hawking OT, or the person with the fastest internet or a computer bot. Should you pick up a trip, you CAN NOT give it away (ends wolf pack crap) unless you have a good cause and the DO approves. The trip goes back to OT for the next crunching of OT. This is a fairer system since it goes by seniority and everyone is senior at some point.
You have got to be joking. Either that, or senior and still want it all. Punish everyone for the actions of a few on one airplane? Crazy. Pick up a trip, decide you want to swap it with someone or give it away, and you need permission to swap it....gotta give a good enough reason to management? Now that is about the worst idea I've heard in a long time.
If you're senior, just bid the trips you want. And then make friends, get a group going who help each other out, get on the Facebook swapping pages. But to try to control everyone else's life....no. You would be in a very small, senior, self focused minority.