Originally Posted by
Chato
I have appropriated a few trips myself in the past. I see people trying to pick up OT for the next day using the automated system, FYI this won’t work.
You wait until it is assigned to a reserve then at 5pm call and tell crew schedule you want to “appropiate” whatever trip it is. This will give YOU the OT premium and whoever is on reserve will go back to reserve.
I am putting this out there just in general so people get an idea of how it works.
Yes. As a commuter, it's just about the only way to pick up OT outside of the RF window. And I don't like the idea of competing with everyone calling in at 5pm hoping I'm first... but what you say is exactly correct (but it's not exactly the ONLY way to appropriate...just the best way if you commute). And it's why the company wants to take this LOA back... it's often hard to reassign that reserve pilot, particularly if he's already confirmed his assignment. But it's now easier to do this than it is to use QT to pick up OT. For those tying to pull in extra money, this may be the best way the company has left them to do so.