Originally Posted by
Excargodog
One man’s trash is another’s treasure. Besides, a lot can come up between last day to put in bids and the end of the month. Sometimes it’s just trading one good (but non-commutable) trip for another good (or almost as good) commutable trip that gets you in an hour or two earlier. Saves you a night in a hotel on your own dime.
Big money difference? Not so much. But sleeping in your own bed tonight as opposed to buying a hotel night and losing a morning of time waiting to jumpseat home is not a trivial thing either.
Obviously. But that other trip is gonna look good to someone, and get picked up. Or traded for something worse, and then worse. I've watched a good trip drop (on days I already have a good trip) and within second or minutes it's gone, or traded for something less good. That second trip is traded quickly for something less good. And so on. Anything good is eaten by the hyenas until only the bones are left. "Good" trips are eaten up by seniority in the bid, and then those who couldn't hold those trips because of less seniority eat them when they fall into open time. They never just sit. To suggest they just sit there is to suggest that everyone that couldn't hold those trips originally because of their seniority will now just look at them and go "oh well, I guess I'll just fly the crap my seniority could hold" and not trade for them. And I've watched FLICA enough to know it happens fast.
There's a reason that NK pilot put out the spoof BOT selling website... To deny it is just silly and beyond reasonable belief.