Minimum number of hours you can drop down to?
09-09-2019, 05:11 AM
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Minimum number of hours you can drop down to?
I’m curious what the minimum number of credit hours you can drop down to for each airline and under what conditions. I recently talked with someone from Spirit who mentioned you can drop to zero hours without having to pick up any trips. Does anyone else allow this?
09-09-2019, 05:56 AM
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While in theory this is true, in practice, it's a bit more complicated. We have a red/green reserve grid, and any trip that touches a red day can't be dropped, it can only be traded to another pilot. But true that there is no minimum number of credit or block hours one needs to maintain.
09-09-2019, 07:44 AM
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Originally Posted by tanker
At Southwest you can drop down to zero provided you can get other pilots to pick up what you want to drop.
09-09-2019, 07:55 AM
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As stated, at NK you can drop all provided adequate reserve coverage. Additionally you can put your trips in open time, SWA style, for other pilots to pick up, again with no requirements to keep any credit.
09-09-2019, 10:35 AM
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Frontier allows you to drop to 60 hours credit for half the months and 70 credit the other half. You can drop virtually all of your flying, but you have to pick up to those levels by the end of the month. We have tons of scheduling flexibility but you must end the month with 60 or 70 credit hours. Many people are able to completely change their entire month from the award. Hope that made sense
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