Originally Posted by
jdm7565
As an outsider looking in- is it easy to “clear your schedule” and basically drop to zero for the month? What are the stipulations or conditions in order to do that?
If you can hold a line, then generally yes. But as described above, it will probably take some secondary techniques. You can sometimes “give away” trips to pilots on a swap board. Or more likely, use “Bad coverage/worse coverage”, where you drop a trip (or multiple trips) next week/month by swapping into a close-in trip where the “reserves available” differential is ‘worse’ than the differential(s) later.