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04-26-2026 | 10:12 PM

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CRJJ

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Flown with a few in my senior base who do that

I'm sure there's a handful of REALLY senior guys doing that, but it's not the norm AT ALL. If I ever get a puppy, I'll call it OTL.

04-27-2026 | 04:23 AM

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I'm sure there's a handful of REALLY senior guys doing that, but it's not the norm AT ALL. If I ever get a puppy, I'll call it OTL.

im 35% in LGA and I can count on 1 hand how many trips I’ve been able to drop. Yesterday in TTS my next trip was green so I dropped it, but that is NOT normal.

04-27-2026 | 05:02 AM

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im 35% in LGA and I can count on 1 hand how many trips I’ve been able to drop. Yesterday in TTS my next trip was green so I dropped it, but that is NOT normal.

there is a science too it. However when I was about 35% it’s when I could begin to drop to Zero every month.

04-27-2026 | 05:04 AM

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Small bases seem to get restricted more by OTL than the big bases. I can only drop turns, which i do a lot. Friends in CLT and DFW, at least historically, have been able to drop to zero after starting with exclusively longer trips, by trading down to shorter and shorter trips til drop

04-27-2026 | 05:07 AM

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I’m 48% in my seat in DFW and actually had better success last year swapping down and dropping. I think more people are doing it, as the trips have gotten worse, and the company has kept it locked down more.

04-27-2026 | 05:37 AM

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Flown with a few in my senior base who do that

If you can hold 1 or 2 day trips in PBS they will drop. Three days or more you have to trade or hope someone else wants them. A green 3 day has been a unicorn for over a year.

I’m a ‘drop everything’ guy who posts every trip immediately when the schedules load and that’s been my experience.

04-27-2026 | 05:56 AM

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I don’t do too much TTSin' but I've even noticed its tightened up and seems harder to drop; and Im talking 1-1s not 4-days.

Maybe, just maybe, APU will be a net positive as they see more pickups? Less need for reserves might actually turn to more lines, so more trips to churn in TTS, with APU getting the scraps so OTLs might loosen too?

Wait...I smell toast

04-27-2026 | 01:43 PM

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I'm sure there's a handful of REALLY senior guys doing that, but it's not the norm AT ALL. If I ever get a puppy, I'll call it OTL.

No, senior in junior bases, but junior in senior bases. They were able to drop their entire schedule, and just picked up OOBMU. APU has made it even easier, because they just have to be the fastest to accept the trip now.

04-27-2026 | 04:08 PM

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The APU is not the problem, it’s the dropping all your schedule. If you’re senior enough to get all day turns, then sure, otherwise, not a chance. The more “flexible” months you can do play a little bit from 3 to 2 and all that, but unfortunately, OTL is senior to us 😂

04-27-2026 | 05:52 PM

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Its all so random

did tdy to mia as 737 ca this march. Spring break. Dropped everything. Maybe others just picked up my trips, idk

45%

some months in lga at 35%ish i could drop everything but in april, nada.