Originally Posted by
cactus1549
Reposting a newbie question here that I posted in a different thread.
Can someone explain for a newbie how dropping a trip would work in theory? I.e conditions must be satisfied in order to be able to drop a trip? Do you/can you automatically get assigned another trip? (And in airlines which allow it, how does swapping generally work?)
This only applies if you're a line holder. There must be positive reserve numbers on the days you have a trip. Go to sked plus and drop the trip. Otherwise you can post a trip in open time (add an incentive if you want) and hope someone else picks it up. You can pick up trips on your days off from open time, unless you're restricted by your FDP limit. Historically, you were not able to drop anything because we didn't have enough reserves but on the FO side lately people have been able to drop trips again.