We already have this. OOBWS

+1

Out of base flying is a show stopper for me. I've missed green slips several months this year when the out-of-basers bailed scheduling out when they ran out of reserves. When we're fat on reserve, I get that these guys are doing the short call pilots a favor by covering a trip, but they don't pay any attention to when we're out of SC pilots. That costs those of us in base green slips, plus kills any motivation for the company to add positions.

There's already too much shenanigans going on with the pilot to pilot board. It's the new trip parking. Don't open it system wide.

Not quite the same. Re-read my post. Not talking about WS.

That's picking up out of open time, and not off of another pilot's schedule. Even if the other pilot has a QPD in for his trip, the QPD goes away 48 hours prior to report, which is always earlier than a pilot could pick it up via OOBWS.

My opinion only. Far 117 changed the way pilots should be thinking. For example, picking up to the fars at straight rates bones another pilot out of a greenslip. There is only one reason to pick up at straight pay and that is to get to the greenslip trigger. Every cockpit on every flight should have this discussion.

Agreed. That's the main reason that I support OOB swaps. It helps guys drop trips that they could not otherwise get out of.

The dreaded capped reserve days.

While I agree with your line of thinking, that barn door was opened in LOA 46, long before FAR 117. I noticed that the survey question on automatic premium pay above a certain trigger included an option to do this together with a pickup limit that would apply to all non-GS flying, similar to the old NW system.

That idea sounds as though it would keep guys from going up to FARs prior to GS, while giving us 1.5 pay for the time between the trigger and the pickup limit. Would that ultimately help staffing by reducing the amount of time we can pick up before reserves, or would it hurt staffing by encouraging more guys to pick up above the trigger?

Speaking for myself only and projecting it on others, it would encourage picking up above the GS trigger, thereby reducing required staffing.

It doesn't matter why you don't actually want to bid the base. The point is that working as a bidding mafia currently limits you to mining your own base's flying, but OOBS leave it wide open to mine other bases' flying. OOBWS isn't quite good enough for those people, because it limits them to the WS pick-up limit.

Now they want to get down with OPF.