Originally Posted by Lahey

absolutely, here’s piedmont’s secret:

there’s this little thing called Twitter, all ya gotta have to sign up is an email address and then tell the pilots to follow it, then scheduling will post open time with pictures of money raining down from the skies saying ‘PHL ca needed 4 turn @ 16:00 PRM AVAIL CALL SCHED’.

its cutting edge, I know.

the rest of the open time? gets posted on a webpage at a random time, after 3:00PM. to pick your trip, send an email in (BEFORE 3:00) to sched, then call them at some point after 3:00 and hope they have sorted through all the ‘GCOM’ requests to see if it’s been approved. they’ll deny it or approve it for whatever reason they feel that day (no known guidelines for approval or deny). oh and if you aren’t on good terms with sched, they’ll just deny everything you send in.

trading? must have both pilots email a ‘GCOM’ request to sched to swap, may, or may not be approved.

we’ve been perfecting these scheduling practice for years....if you need help, let piedmont know, they are fantastic with this stuff.