Can lineholders drop trips?
01-14-2018 | 01:15 AM
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The ability to drop trips is a moving target run by a plotter that takes inputs on forecast reserve coverage and trips already, or forecasted to be, in open time. This is why trips that touch weekends are tough to drop; even though reserve coverage is higher, they expect additional trips to be called out sick so they lower the value. It’s also why trips may turn green initially when TTOT opens; it’s not the lights are “confused”, it’s that the plotter values allow trips to be dropped right away, then it locks down those numbers as people start dropping trips.
This is what caused the Christmas boondoggle – a human input incorrect values to the plotter and it allowed everybody to drop everything until the company caught on and locked down TT to correct the values.
This is what caused the Christmas boondoggle – a human input incorrect values to the plotter and it allowed everybody to drop everything until the company caught on and locked down TT to correct the values.
01-15-2018 | 05:52 AM
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1000 would definitely get it done!
Just be sure and pay as agreed.
We had a couple of turds at our regional who would totally welch on folks who did them a solid. No bueno.
(One I am thinking of had a CJO at SWA withdrawn because a victim of his welching knew someone who knew someone.)
Just be sure and pay as agreed.
We had a couple of turds at our regional who would totally welch on folks who did them a solid. No bueno.
(One I am thinking of had a CJO at SWA withdrawn because a victim of his welching knew someone who knew someone.)
01-15-2018 | 05:54 AM
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I'm a junior LAX 320 lineholder (~65%) and Ive been dropping almost everything except for holiday trips. After clearing my schedule as much as I can, usually I pick up out of base trips in DFW (where I live), but sometimes I rebuild with good LAX trips that appear in open time. I just drop the green trips (if any), post all the red ones to automatically drop if someone else wants them or if they turn green, and then trade the others around as much as possible until something turns green or I can get trips that fit together well enough to minimize my commutes. It's not too hard, but can take a few minutes each day to check what trades are available since it continuously changes.
Thanks buddy!
01-16-2018 | 08:14 PM
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There’s probably job orders from 1980 still in the queue.
01-17-2018 | 04:21 AM
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The first opening minutes of TTOT are productive for trades because of participation. There are enough pilots making trades that it turns some trips green (if only temporarily). More participants makes it work better. Unfortunately every base is different. In CLT there are a lot of participants and this phenomenon lasts 30 to 45 minutes. In PHL very few and it lasts about 3 minutes (STS), then it’s stagnant for the month
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