Originally Posted by
Macjet
Why thankfully? One of our greatest features is the ability to manipulate our schedules and picking up out of base is one of them. If a trip isn't working for a local guy then why should it be denied to someone else?
If it's not working for a local guy, he can just drop it even if it takes him to zero, right?
It should be denied to anyone outside of the base, because a) it can allow pilots to get trips their seniority otherwise wouldn't hold, b) may prevent an in-base pilot from getting a 200% flying opportunity, and c) distorts base staffing. It's a benefit to the company and the one selfish pilot who gets the trip, but a detriment to the pilot group as a whole. This is stuff people should have learned by the time they got out of the regionals.