Originally Posted by
Gunfighter
Those trips may push the reserve coverage from blue to black, thereby denying pilots in your BES the opportunity for drops, swaps or moving X days. It could create another flying obligation for a reserve pilot who otherwise would have been home. Since this practice is typically promoted by/for junior pilots in BES too junior to hold (desirable) BES the trips being dropped are the junior trips, not the good trips. You aren't helping pilots improve their schedules, you are dumping crap trips onto reserve pilots.
The one point we can all agree on is that an OOBWS reduces the aggregate value of the PWA by flying for lower wages.
It's some twisted logic that says as the senior pilot you shouldn't change your schedule so those below you can. Isn't it the persons seniority that allows them to drop on blue days. Yet thier subordinate position as "out of base" that prevents them from getting the "good" trips in another base because every other pilot has a chance to take the trip first. How is it flying for lower wages?