Originally Posted by
SoFloFlyer
As a UA pilot, I’ve never seen this. Maybe what you mean is aggressive pick up when it comes to premium? If that’s the case, that’s because we have a tiered system. 50%/75%/100%. Senior guys HATE when a junior guy picks up a trip for 50% premium because the senior guys wait for the trip to go to 100% (y’all’s 200%).
Senior guys want it to go to 100%, but that would mean only the top 20% of each category would get premium. 50%-75% seem to be the only way more junior guys get any premium.
We also don’t have bot users because our IT is robust and won’t allow it. What we do is put in a pick up criteria and the system will honor it if it can. That’s part of the internal workings of our tradeboard though and everyone has access to that
This is good info.
I bolded your quote above because DAL's "200%" isn't really a thing. A premium DAL trip is 100% typical pay + 100% premium pay, which I'm sure is the same as what you're describing at 100% premium pay.
DAL doesn't have any premium mechanism that pays +200% in addition to normal pay (soft pay notwithstanding.) DAL also does not have the +50% or +75% pay that you describe.