Originally Posted by
Han Solo
Yup.
Just flew with a top 3% FO. He bids 4 day trips with desirable 30 hour layovers and his schedule is empty within hours of posting to icrew. He only flies the easy high credit stuff and the only reason he can do that because pilots go over ALV + 15 taking his 4 day trips via the swap board. He is not alone in this practice -- its what I would do if I were in the right seat. It would be almost impossible to drop a 4 day trip via the swap board if pilots couldn't pick up beyond ALV + 15.
What's wrong with this? The pilot picking up his trip is happy, the pilot dropping the trip is happy.
You're saying that the company would have to hire more pilots to cover the broken trips if that senior guy couldn't clear his schedule? By this logic NO ONE should pick up open time at all if the ultimate goal of all of us is to increase staffing and jobs...