SWA to AA or UA or DL Hmm....
09-16-2023, 07:29 AM
#61
Gets Weekend Reserve
Joined APC: Jul 2007
Posts: 3,669
Originally Posted by Swindler128
Honest swa question. How many days off per contract do you get ? What's the avg data off as a lineholder and how easy is it to drop trips ?
Once a line holder, 17 days off on a low end, 18-19 days off are fairly pretty common as well.
You don't really drop trips here. You put them in giveaway and hope someone picks them up from you. Another way is to force an illegality during the monthly overlap.
09-18-2023, 03:42 PM
#62
New Hire
Joined APC: Jul 2023
Posts: 4
Dropping trips
Couple things
1. Seniority rules. Senior seat holders can bid turns and two days and favorable days off. Sometimes they go. Especially CA lines when lance CA wants to fill.
2. The market always changes. Sometimes (summer peak flying busy long days) trip trade give away nothing goes away. Other times when the flying is reduced and line totals are low people will take trips out of give-away. January, February etc. End of the month and the players are over the cap.
In short it just depends. Some months some years you can ditch your whole line. Other times you’re stuck with what you bid.
ELITT is trip trade. Again, it’s spotty. If you have a Thur-Sat line you won’t be able to move it left or right. Other days. Sun-Mon start days you can usually trade it off those days.
1. Seniority rules. Senior seat holders can bid turns and two days and favorable days off. Sometimes they go. Especially CA lines when lance CA wants to fill.
2. The market always changes. Sometimes (summer peak flying busy long days) trip trade give away nothing goes away. Other times when the flying is reduced and line totals are low people will take trips out of give-away. January, February etc. End of the month and the players are over the cap.
In short it just depends. Some months some years you can ditch your whole line. Other times you’re stuck with what you bid.
ELITT is trip trade. Again, it’s spotty. If you have a Thur-Sat line you won’t be able to move it left or right. Other days. Sun-Mon start days you can usually trade it off those days.
09-19-2023, 05:36 AM
#63
At your mom's house
Joined APC: Jun 2008
Position: cpt 737
Posts: 2,698
Originally Posted by LuvCKP
Couple things
1. Seniority rules. Senior seat holders can bid turns and two days and favorable days off. Sometimes they go. Especially CA lines when lance CA wants to fill.
2. The market always changes. Sometimes (summer peak flying busy long days) trip trade give away nothing goes away. Other times when the flying is reduced and line totals are low people will take trips out of give-away. January, February etc. End of the month and the players are over the cap.
In short it just depends. Some months some years you can ditch your whole line. Other times you’re stuck with what you bid.
ELITT is trip trade. Again, it’s spotty. If you have a Thur-Sat line you won’t be able to move it left or right. Other days. Sun-Mon start days you can usually trade it off those days.
1. Seniority rules. Senior seat holders can bid turns and two days and favorable days off. Sometimes they go. Especially CA lines when lance CA wants to fill.
2. The market always changes. Sometimes (summer peak flying busy long days) trip trade give away nothing goes away. Other times when the flying is reduced and line totals are low people will take trips out of give-away. January, February etc. End of the month and the players are over the cap.
In short it just depends. Some months some years you can ditch your whole line. Other times you’re stuck with what you bid.
ELITT is trip trade. Again, it’s spotty. If you have a Thur-Sat line you won’t be able to move it left or right. Other days. Sun-Mon start days you can usually trade it off those days.
Right now people are picking up trips below the rig instead of using TTGA . It's like TTGA doesnt exists.
09-19-2023, 05:47 AM
#64
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2017
Posts: 3,681
Originally Posted by hoover
there was 6 turn lines in den FO bid packet. Out of Over 600 lines. Seniority means nothing for bidding at sw once you can get weekends off. You'll fly the exact same trips in the top 10% as those at 50%. And even then you'll just get rerouted.
Right now people are picking up trips below the rig instead of using TTGA . It's like TTGA doesnt exists.
Right now people are picking up trips below the rig instead of using TTGA . It's like TTGA doesnt exists.
09-19-2023, 05:54 AM
#65
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2006
Posts: 2,878
Originally Posted by Cyio
Yeah the schedule stuff has been weird this summer. Everyone kept telling me lucrative it was going to be but I didnt see it. Hell in PHX there are CA's bidding straight pay on OT for 5tfp turns. Its crazy.
Saw a 10 tfp 2 day go straight this week and wasn’t one of those “I can turn it into a day trip” deals. Bid for whatever you want…..keeps me from getting called out on rsv.
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