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Flightcap
For what it’s worth, very few of our trips would be able to be split under a requirement to touch the originating domicile. Most of our multi-day trips only touch base on the first and last legs. The base turns are almost always built as day trips. With the two airlines merging this could be an interesting wrinkle in schedule construction if base touching is much more common at F9. It would make trip splitting relevant. We don’t have the ability to split trips at all in our current language.
We do have a tradeboard - no restrictions.
I’m not up on the exact process of selecting the trips that will be withheld to stock IOT. I think there’s some union/company collaboration but I don’t know exactly how it works.
I would be fine if it just went away. Like I said it’s considered pilot modified and I’m fairly certain that would make rig go away under both agreements. It’s common alpa language. There’s a group of pilots that like it to drop victory laps to make trips commutable. It’s pretty archaic now with our current schedules. After saying that giving up anything needs to be looked at a bit closer with your schedules.