Originally Posted by
Meme In Command
If you are the most senior pilot eligible for a trip, auto accept casts the widest net. It doesn't matter if you did or didn't have the intent to acknowledge and fly the trip.
In theory, during a very chaotic month the top pilot ina category can submit a slip with auto accept and just sit back and do nothing. Any time the company uses 23.M.7 he gets paid.
But the part that sucks for most pilots is the guys that can make that 23.M.7 money are the absolute most senior pilots
(That's how I understand it, happy to be corrected)
23M7 seems to go to junior pilots a lot because they start coverage and get halfway (or more) thru coverage and then stop it. Scheduling finally runs out of time and then send it out for an Inverse assignment. Where the proper coverage stopped is where it is pay protected.