Originally Posted by
Turbosina
Dumb question, but if you just want to change bases and you're in the same seat and equipment, wouldn't that be accomplished through a base trade as opposed to a vacancy bid? Or just submit both?
Not dumb at all! Just two ways of accomplishing the same thing. Never having done a base trade I'm not an expert but here's my understanding:
For a base trade, there has to be someone on the other side of the trade, i.e, one pilot swaps DEN to SFO and another swaps SFO to DEN. If you don't have a trading partner, the trade doesn't happen.
For a vacancy bid, nobody has to take the other side - you just lateral over the base you're bidding into on the vacancy bid and create a hole in the base you're leaving.