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dudemize said:In my unit guys drop trips all the time for military duty, but can you drop trips if you just want the time off unpaid, or are you obligated to fly them until someone else picks them up? Thanks
Flycatcher99 said:This is one first year (strike that, now second year) guy that agrees with Chest on the whole "dropping and picking up" issue. While Fate makes a valid point that dropping trips does not put them in open time, it's very debatable as to whether that saves the company money. There is a greater chance that the company is now having to pay more. If, hypothetically, a first year F/O attempts to drop all their trips, and some or all of these trips are picked up by other F/O's, they are likely to cost the company much more than first year pay, as second-, third-, fourth- (etc) year F/O's are picking them up. Meanwhile, the original F/O is now picking up open time at second-year pay that would likely ultimately be assigned to a first-year reserve F/O. Seems very likely that a strategy like this is costly to the company. At any rate, this is certainly not how the company designed the system, which was to reward diligent first-year F/O's who are not making nearly the amount of more senior F/O's.
SWA/FO said:Yeah, tell that to the guys in your unit...no dropping trips unless its official military stuff!