You don't always have the ability to drop "at will." Depends on crew manning and whether someone is willing to pick up your trip if you profer it.

There was a time not long ago when the company flooded the schedule with two-day hotel standbys and you couldn't drop anything.

So you’re saying right now with the slight overstaffing it is not that easy to drop?

Haven’t heard of anyone having trouble dropping trips past few years. Rarely is there open time. To get something out of open time you have to be watching it pretty close. Along with that, if you Proffer a trip for pickup, it most likely will disappear.

On the 767 at least, for the time being.

Last I heard Reserves aren’t flying too much either.

No right now it is very easy to drop trips because we are adequately manned in most seats. Open time is snatched up in a matter of minutes typically, at least in the 757. For folks who have only been here a few years while hiring has been robust and advancement has been rapid life has been pretty good and it may seem like you can just drop stuff whenever you want. That is true to a point, but the moment hiring slows down (which it may have already) and manning gets a little tighter that ability to drop a trip at will won't necessarily be there.

For now that means those on reserve aren't flying that much because most of the open trips are scarfed up by guys trying to consolidate or just make some extra money since our line values are a bit low these days.

You don’t need to pick anything up to consolidate.

I'm about 2 out of 10 in trying to drop trips the last few months... They deny it almost every time.. Lack of coverage seems to be the main reason.

Attempt to proffer?

What Fleet/Seat is that?

Yea haven't been denied once on 75. And dropped several on yellow reserve allocation days.

Same on the Mad Dog.