Originally Posted by nene

A lot of new guys/gals around here and many don't realize this:

Another public announcement for this kind of dilemma, you can swap with the pot to another trip on completely different days as long as the days covered have a more negative total (even by just one day) than the trip you are dropping and it even works on all holidays.

EX: Say trip A you want to drop is 12/ 28-30 and has negative reserve coverage of -3, -4, -4 on the respective days.

Now say you notice that for whatever reason 12/ 15-17 has -8, +4, -8 reserve coverage, you find trip B in open time covering those days.

Barring any other illegalities concerning block time etc, you can swap with pot trip B for A (holiday rules do not matter). Trips do not have to touch or overlap in any way.

You can even trade into a longer day trip if you need an extra days to make the negative reserve coverage shortfall work, ie the total days of trip net reserve coverage is all the "swap with the pot" computer looks at.

And if getting out of all the flying is your goal, then you can drop your APD/IVD on the trip that you picked up (as long as the min reserve coverage for APD's is met) and holiday will no longer be a factor.