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Old 09-05-2018 | 09:11 AM
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Originally Posted by sailingfun
You can also list your current trip as a pickup. If you don’t get the open time trip you stand a reasonable chance to get your old trip back.
This works the best for the risk averse. Put in a PD for your trip, then put in a WS for the trip you want as number 1 and the trip you have as number 2.

I did this once and when checking ICrew, I had to acknowledge a schedule change. I got excited, thinking I got the better trip, but it was my original trip. At least I didn’t have to scramble to pick up something else.
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Old 09-05-2018 | 12:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Big E 757
This works the best for the risk averse. Put in a PD for your trip, then put in a WS for the trip you want as number 1 and the trip you have as number 2.
The only risk is you get your PD, someone else WS the trip you wanted, and someone senior to you has a blind WS in and picks up the trip you dropped, then you're stuck with nothing.

But I've used this to good effect in a category where people quickly WS almost anything that drops into open time.
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Old 09-05-2018 | 12:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Hrkdrivr
The only risk is you get your PD, someone else WS the trip you wanted, and someone senior to you has a blind WS in and picks up the trip you dropped, then you're stuck with nothing.

But I've used this to good effect in a category where people quickly WS almost anything that drops into open time.
You do want to make sure there is coverage to drop your original trip. If not it becomes a Q trip. You can’t WS your own Q trip but anyone junior to you can. Learned this the hard way.
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Old 09-05-2018 | 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by sailingfun
You do want to make sure there is coverage to drop your original trip. If not it becomes a Q trip. You can’t WS your own Q trip but anyone junior to you can. Learned this the hard way.

yep yep yep...ouch!
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Old 09-07-2018 | 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by tunes
Love how our PWA pretends like MLOA is a request....
Well when it needs to be a schedule alteration, it IS a request...Vis a Vis, "I have MLOA from the 1st-8th, please add it to my schedule". The language does nothing to diminish the nature of an MLOA need.
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Old 09-09-2018 | 06:44 AM
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Its called cloud sourcing. Just post the relevant reference and move on. Unless you have a daily use with these clauses, or sit around memorizing contractual language (get a life) the internet is more timely and helpful than any other source.

Help others succeed. Save the sarc for your old man club.

more useless advice...eat your veggies, looking at you CB.
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Old 09-10-2018 | 06:32 AM
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Originally Posted by sailingfun
You do want to make sure there is coverage to drop your original trip. If not it becomes a Q trip. You can’t WS your own Q trip but anyone junior to you can. Learned this the hard way.
...or anyone senior also. The 'drops' occur first in the PCS run THEN any WS that captures your trip (whether generic or by number), senior or junior, will process
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