Originally Posted by FreightDawgyDog
Well I have put in for 5 trip trades in the last 24 hours for xtra pairings worth 20hrs to 38hrs. All went to earlier time stamp and all went to guys flying some kind of make up. None of them dropped or traded trips for them, just added them on to their already full lines. With pilots fighting over straight make up pay and flying 20+ days a month I'm not sure VLT or DFT is even an issue. No wonder nothing good is happening at the table. I guess for these guys, 2 years isn't long enough. Color me discouraged, disgusted and dumbfounded. With so many players like these, maybe we will get what they deserve even if the rest of us don't..
Not to justify all trip pickups (obviously you checked these trips out and it appears that these particular folks are just flying as much as they can) however, there are other reasons to pick up trips with out trading off trips. Some people may be dropping R days for trips. (not sure if scheduling is allowing this since I don't sit reserve). But for me I just got taken off a nice trip Friday and got a lousy sub trip. I turned down sub and went home. Now I'll have to go into OTP next month to make up the hours lost. Can't afford to lose the pay.