Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Completely wrong. I have never had a issue regardless of manning dropping trips when senior. You bid good trips and place them in open time as Q trips and on the swap board. They go away fast. They get picked up by pilots with vacation credit, pilots bought off trips ect, pilots wanting more pay ect... Good trips don’t hang around. Guys find ways to pick them up.
We work for different airlines. It’s ok. You just don’t have any standing in this discussion when such a small percentage fall where you are. You can put as much as you want on any board. It’s not going anywhere when reserves are half (at best) on the 19th of the month and then after IVDs and APDs process we are now at 1/4 required vs available coverage and the ALV is 84. There is no dropping of trips. It’s literally the first day of the bid period tomorrow. Arguably the best reserve coverage is the first 5 days of the month. We have 0-1 for the next 5 days. Only goes downhill from there. So the the other 95% of us, no (or very reduced) GS trigger would make more sense. On the off chance I get to drop a trip on the first day I can, I’m now below the stupid trigger. So, I turn my phone off for the rest of the month. A sub 65 hour trigger would at least incentivize some to work when workers are needed. It’s a win win.