Just to clarify what the grid being green is, it means when the number of reserves available on a given day exceeds the number of open pairings that touch that day. It is very rare to see more than a few days at the open of trading (24/1500) for the next month meet that criteria and would be a snowy day in hell when they happen to be in a row to where you could drop a trip, let alone the people senior to you.

We do have the ability to trade trips in a manner to reduce your schedule by trading out of trips with good coverage into bad coverage (bad day/worse day trades). So there is the potential to trade into a 3-day in the near future and out of 2x 3-days later in the month. Just looking at Dec, the most junior lineholders had 13 days off. Junior lineholder for Jan was hired Feb 22.