Originally Posted by
fishforfun
You obviously haven’t been a NB B for a very long time. No dropping trips and then flying premium. No dropping trips at all except for APD and IVD. Thank god for those.
There should be no trigger. None. Zero. You want me to fly on a day off, pay me. If you want or need it that bad, pay up. Simple as that. If you want to drop your schedule and roll the dice you’ll get GSs in their place, good on you.
Having a trigger has nothing to do with dropping trips. If anything, not having a trigger would make it worse as the Uber senior pilots drop their prime weekday trips via the swap board or first PCS run.
Also, If you can’t drop trips due to coverage then you are most likely already at the trigger.