Originally Posted by
Tornado875
I'm going to disagree with that partially. A **** trip is a **** trip is a **** trip. We all know what a bad trip is and we all know what a good trip is. Now we may have preferences of types of flying, layovers, report times and computability, but a bad pairing is always going to be clogging up the open time pot and nothing will completely change that.
Very rarely in a group of 1500 CAs or FOs are you going to get unanimous agreement as to what is a good or bad trip. But saying nobody can improve their schedule by trading trips is simply crazy. And even if that were true on the day you put your bid in, things change by the time seven weeks go by.. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want the ability to swap their schedule around if new conflicts present themself. And yeah, that may mean dropping to a lower credit value and taking a less desirable trip to make your kid’s soccer game because they made the playoff or something. I don’t know anyone who can reliably predict what dates they want off six or seven weeks out. The ability to drop/swap/pickup. Is as necessary to pilots QOL as many other work rules..