Originally Posted by
Trip7
I'd say 90% of pilots just fly their schedule and pick up extra time here or there. The clear your schedule and WS crew is just a small subset of pilots mostly in Atlanta that have decent seniority and schedule flexibility.
I think it's higher than 10%. Lots of people will drop or swap trips just look at the first few runs on the 20th. I used to drop down to almost zero than surf open time to minimize my days on the road. Part of that was being chronically jr. for 20 years. Even now as a "senior" type I still do swaps as things can and do change.
The big difference is in base versus out of base. Living in base makes it very easy.