Originally Posted by
Master of FiFi
There is also a situation with seniority trip trading. Say you try to swap to an open trip and a pilot junior to you also wants it. If a pilot senior to you wants the trip the pilot junior to you is trying to drop, it will give him the junior pilot's trip and give the pilot junior to you the open time trip to repair his schedule.
PDRed and legal, and it said that a lot of trip trading happens this way.
I had this happen once. Primo trip opened up and I wanted it, but saw a guy senior to me also wanted it. After I got it I looked and found out that the only reason I got it awarded was because my trip didn’t go into open time, but was wanted by a guy who was in the top 10% in base, so the only way he could get my trip was if I got the open trip, because I didn’t have a drop in, but a 1-for-1 trade.