Originally Posted by
Tornado875
I vote more premium. And as far as ugly trips clogging the opentime pot I keep being told on this board that one mans trash is another mans treasure and that idea drives the ability to Drop/Swap your way to honor and glory regardless of seniority and holidays.
This entire summer I dropped my entire schedule in my base and picked up trips in several other domiciles around the country as we traveled as a family. It was really nice. During this time I also grabbed some 200% out of other bases as well as spirit served cities that are not bases.
I live in base and we have has some of the issues you speak of when it comes to the negatives of out of base pickup. It’s probably still happening to some extent in DFW, ORD, and DTW as those bases were downsized and folks were displaced. In my time at spirit there was even a push by one base to get the rules changed. The demographics changed over time and it became less of an issue.
IMO the positives of out of base pickup greatly outweighs the negatives.