Originally Posted by
disenchantMINT
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.
A and c could be mitigated with an out of domicile time fence. Of course b is true but the down side to leaving ugly trips in opentime waiting for them to go premium clogs the grid and makes it more difficult to manipulate a schedule.
Sometimes you need to make a choice. Do we want more premium Or ability to drop/swap? That’s the choice with out of domicile. Everything else you mentioned gets mitigated with a time fence.