Originally Posted by
golf59
Other airlines you can pick up willy nilly... if you have a bot or are super senior. At least here every one has a shot at OT. I think you're the first person I've heard speak negatively of the X/Y system honestly, which is fine to each their own I'm just a bit surprised... and some what new, in one of those bases you mentioned.
Yes and no. I'm a captain in FLL, and after the bots crash flica during DOT open at 1200 there isn't much leftover for everyone else.
There is a notorious brazilian CA here in FLL who has nabs up all of the day turns right at the strike of DOT. He bids weekends off with red eye turns and other garbage junior pairings, drops all of it in IOT because it's normally green during the week, and then somehow manages to suck up most of whatever day turns are available at the start of DOT despite flica crashing.
i would love to know his secret but I have a pretty good idea of what it might be.