Originally Posted by
Tailhookah
Yes. All correct and total bs. Four day swap. 2 days were at mins. Those 2 days were being covered by trip I wanted to swap into. Yet couldn’t due to that rule. This needs to change.
I recommend an email to the scheduling committee. Swaps are completely automated per the contract. About once a year there's a similar complaint to yours. EVERY time, without exception, it turns out there's more to the story and the swap denial was appropriate. The numbers were misinterpreted, the trip the guy is trying to swap into is a Q trip, not a true uncovered trip, the "4 day" ended with a red-eye and was actually a 5 day, etc etc.
That doesn't mean that mistakes aren't possible, just that the contract allows for same day for same day swaps, regardless of numbers.