Originally Posted by
MrBogardi
How it happened at HAL with trip trading. Married pilots in same category. One much senior than the other. Senior spouse gives Junior spouse high credit desirable trips. Junior pilot drops undesirable awarded trips.
Ok. But now what does that senior CA do? What does it matter if Mr. Smith flew those trips or Mrs Smith flew them? Either way, Mr Smith was senior to me so I couldn’t get those trips anyway. It’s a moot point. Question is, if Mrs Smith is doing his trips now, what does Mr Smith do? Staying home unpaid? Taking crappy trips from open time?
For vacation it is probably just as simple as Senior pilot bid summer/Christmas vacation and no longer wants it. They text their buddy saying they are going to drop their vacation. Junior pilot picks up desirable vacation. Pilot senior to the one who picked it up says seniority wasn’t honored when they see junior pilot with vacation that they bid for and didn’t get.
Sounds like a selfish argument. By that logic, you could never allow vacation trading, nor trip trading. Why stop at just vacation? Why not hunt down every trip that was initially awarded senior to you, and then traded away to someone more junior to you?
Seniority was honored when that vacation or trip was originally assigned. After that, trading means all bets are off and it’s a free for all.