This. It rarely works out for a shorter trip because the -xx is cumulative. 5 day with -15 total can't be traded for a 4 day with -14 total even though a single day may be -10. SRH under PCS/Swapping Trips/X-Day Move Formula.

Correct. Drum is incorrect.

You can't swap later than 7am PCS run for the next day so sitting in base gets you nothing. If you are swapping into, say Friday on the 73N on a 3 day trip. Current reserve is -29, -40, -38. You can literally drop any 3 or 4 day trip later in the month on that fleet. You could probably even pick up a 4 day and drop 6 on the right days.

The entire reason it’s a Q drop is because the staffing level is negative. So without the staffing levels changing or someone picking it up, the poor staffing does in fact prevent the drop from going through.

if staffing didn’t prevent the drop, it would already be off your schedule and not showing a “Q” in open time.

Thanks for explaining that. I don't have to repeat it now.

Breezy your tactic is limited in its use. If you want to bank on it 100% happening, well then like I said, good luck to you. I'm sure you ninja it all the time.

My experience with this tactic is it rarely works and the juice is not worth the squeeze. Again, if you enjoy daily logins to the the iCrew to sniper the trips, good on you. Most of us don't.

Fact remains is for most of us out here when we are not blue in coverage your ability to drop trips is severely limited. I don't want to swap for another; most of us that do this want them gone. Your tactic doesn't work for this.

If yer not cheatn, yer not tryn. Well, cheating is subjective, working within the PWA but some what unconventionally is a better way to describe it. Learn the maneuvering and increase your QOL and/or your pay. The summer series DALPA put out if full of good intel.

Ok, here you go.





What makes you think I’m angry?

True.

I should have used clearer language. The Q trip could be grabbed by another pilot if it doesn’t end up dropping on its own. Coverage doesn’t affect the other pilot grabbing it.

Some here are playing checkers, while the rest of us play chess.

Good intel, thanks for the explanation.

As Drum said, not all of us want to be haunting iCrew constantly working the system, BUT if you really need a trip dropped later in the month and don't have/want to use an ADP it's a good tool to have on hand.