Originally Posted by WeiserTraffic

This is exactly what I'm curious of and what I'm most afraid of about re: making the jump to UAL. The drop/swap/trade rules at my LCC are similar to what you describe. My primary goal is this kind of QOL so that I can rearrange my schedule as necessary to spend time with my family especially as my soon to be first born shows up. From what I'm seeing here, it sounds like the ULCC's may offer superior flexibility in terms of being able to completely rearrange your schedule outside of the footprint of your bid award. Is it correct to say that you can only trade into trips which match your original award's footprint? If so that's not necessarily the kind of "flexible" I'm hoping for if I'm trying to trade into a weekday tip in order to get out of a weekend trip for example or vice versa (this is relatively easy to do at my current airline).