Originally Posted by
DeadHead
Ok, racked my brain trying to figure this one out (didn't take that long)
Saw a trip in open time for next month, so I tried to process a swap with pot request.
I didn't get the trip, and it went to a senior pilot.
Then the next day I see the trip back in open time with a Q next to it, guessing its an OE.
However I am also seeing the same exact trip on the pilot swap board as a P/U.
I guess it's feasible the trip got picked up then was placed on an OE, but why would a pilot try to list it as a P/U on the swap board.
I mean if he gets displaced off the trip for OE doesn't he get the entire trip credit anyway?
Haven't been a REG kinda guy for long, so I'm just trying to make heads and tails of it all.
You're assuming it's there because of an OE, right? Why can't the pilot just have picked it up and decided he made a mistake and doesn't want it any longer? He may have picked it up because he thought that trip looked more attractive to other guys in the category than the one he previously had on his schedule, and thus someone might pick it up freeing his schedule of all trips during that time frame. This assumes he couldn't just drop it straight out because there wasn't enough resv coverage.