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01-20-2022 | 07:29 AM

#431

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Buck Rogers

In Trips defense....in case it got lost...see post 373 followed by 387

but then you read 387:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trip7

As an atl73nb in 2021 I dropped nearly all my trips every month and picked up easy WS during the week and GS whenever I felt like it. For nearly all pilots aside from the very very junior there is a fleet and/or category somewhere in the system to go to maximize QOL. If a pilot is hell bent on QOL sacrifice the pay and bid 717B, 220B, Widebody B etc

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dropping and then picking up white slips, as claimed, absolutely requires blue days.

01-20-2022 | 07:31 AM

#432

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Originally Posted by Gone Flying

yes, but to drop trips (to company) and WS over those days you do need blue days

This is not true. You can swap into a trip and drop more days than you pick up. For instance, you can drop 12-15 days and pick up 2-4 as long as the math works, which is does a lot of times in the first few days of the month.. You can then WS to recover the credit.

01-20-2022 | 07:32 AM

#433

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Originally Posted by CBreezy

as long as the math works. You show me a category where dropping 15 days and picking up 4 results in a net reserve gain and I’ll eat my hat.

and again, that’s swapping trips, not dropping trips.

keep in mind, trip claimed to have dropped “almost all” of his/her trips in 2021. That’s an unreasonable claim, at least when applied to anyone but an extremely lucky minority

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01-20-2022 | 07:41 AM

#434

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Quote:

Originally Posted by OOfff

but then you read 387:

dropping and then picking up white slips, as claimed, absolutely requires blue days.

You do realize that if someone picks up a trip from you via the swap board it's a trip drop right? The Swap Board does not mean you have to swap a trip.

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01-20-2022 | 07:43 AM

#435

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Originally Posted by Trip7

You do realize that if someone picks up a trip from you via the swap board it's a trip drop right? The Swap Board does not mean you have to swap a trip.

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how lucky you were that people were clamoring for your trips so much.

01-20-2022 | 07:50 AM

#436

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Originally Posted by OOfff

And the swap board requires someone to want the crappy trip you don’t want. And with everyone’s burn out, probably not a lot of pick ups happening.

01-20-2022 | 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by OOfff

how lucky you were that people were clamoring for your trips so much.

I don't scrutinize. I improvise.

If you're all about the QOL there is a category somewhere that will fit your needs.

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01-20-2022 | 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Trip7

Easy trick to help clear your schedule. Bid a high credit (5 day would be optimal) trip early (1st day of bid period would be optimal) in the bid period. Once you get your schedule WS an easy carryover trip that conflicts with that trip early in the bid period. Trip is dropped regardless of staffing

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Did that much of my career to get the 4th of July off when I could not hold it. Works for New Year’s Day also but I like the 4th more!

01-20-2022 | 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by OOfff

how lucky you were that people were clamoring for your trips so much.

But everyone can do it! And we arent going to get a better deal than TA1!

Trip takes care of trip. He tells these stories, in the manner he tells them, because hes only interested in people saying "wow" and "please teach me". At some point youre swatting at flies.

01-20-2022 | 07:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Buck Rogers

But if I did that....could I true look at myself in the mirror and see a REAL pilot looking back at me? You know, the one that bids the highest paying equipment at the soonest opportunity thereby being on reserve forever, where the trips suck as far as construction and lay overs, and report and release, and days of the week worked, all while saying that the pay is OK but we need to fix the contract as far as QOL?

Reading these forums I'm surprised that anyone would want to be a pilot even if a college degree wasn't required and the company paid for all your ratings.... Why, you'd have to be a chump I tell 'ya. Psshah, a real fool.