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Part 121 · Reserve, open-time & MEL

Open-time / trip trading

Pilots request drops, pickups, and swaps from the open-time board; a planner approves, and a trade that creates no duty/rest violation can auto-approve so the desk isn't a bottleneck on clean trades. Every trade still runs the legality check. It replaces trip trades negotiated over phone and email with no legality backstop.

Launching the first quarter of 2027.

Open-time board
Drop · pickup · swap · legality-checked
Open trips
9
Auto-approved
6
Needs review
2
PilotKindTripStatus
Walker, J.SWAP204 ⇄ 187Auto-approved
Chen, M.PICKUPOpen 162Auto-approved
Reyes, D.DROPDEN-3dayPlanner review
Garcia, R.SWAP204 ⇄ red-eyeBlocked · 117
Clean trades auto-approve · every trade still runs the legality check

Illustrative — every screen reflects your own data.

Who it's for

Crew desks and pilots trading trips who want clean trades to clear without becoming a bottleneck, while the desk's attention goes to the trades that actually need a decision.

What it replaces

Trip trades negotiated over phone and email with no legality backstop.

What open-time / trip trading gives you

  • Drop / pickup / swap from the open-time board
  • Planner approval; clean trades can auto-approve
  • Every trade still runs the legality check

Drop, pickup, and swap from the board

Pilots request drops, pickups, and swaps from the open-time board instead of negotiating trades over phone and email with no legality backstop. A trade with no duty/rest violation can auto-approve, so the desk isn't a bottleneck on clean trades and can spend its attention on the ones that actually need a decision.

  • Drop / pickup / swap from the open-time board
  • Planner approval; clean trades can auto-approve
  • The desk isn't a bottleneck on clean trades
Open-time board
Drop · pickup · swap · legality-checked
Open trips
9
Auto-approved
6
Needs review
2
PilotKindTripStatus
Walker, J.SWAP204 ⇄ 187Auto-approved
Chen, M.PICKUPOpen 162Auto-approved
Reyes, D.DROPDEN-3dayPlanner review
Garcia, R.SWAP204 ⇄ red-eyeBlocked · 117
Clean trades auto-approve · every trade still runs the legality check

Every trade runs the legality check

Every trade runs the duty/rest legality check, so a clean auto-approval and a flagged trade both pass through the same gate. A clean trade can auto-approve precisely because it passed the check — the check is never skipped.

  • Every trade runs the legality check
  • Auto-approval happens because the trade passed the check
  • Clean and flagged trades pass through the same gate
FAR 117 check
Flight-time caps · checked at crew-assignment time
1 assignment blocked before it could post
AssignmentRule checkedResult
Walker, J. → sim assignment24h flight-time capLegal
Chen, M. → sim assignment672h (28-day) flight-time capLegal
Garcia, R. → sim assignment24h flight-time cap exceededBlocked
Deterministic — the same assignment always resolves the same way

How an operator uses this

Pilots request drops, pickups, and swaps from the open-time board instead of negotiating trades over phone and email with no legality backstop. A planner approves, and a trade that creates no duty/rest violation can auto-approve — so the desk isn't a bottleneck on clean trades and can spend its attention on the ones that actually need a decision. Every trade still runs the legality check, so a clean auto-approval and a flagged trade both pass through the same gate.

Illustrative — every screen reflects what's in your own data, nothing more.

How it works

Open-time / trip trading, step by step

  1. A pilot requests a drop, pickup, or swap from the open-time board.

  2. Every trade runs the duty/rest legality check.

  3. A trade with no violation can auto-approve so the desk isn't a bottleneck.

  4. A trade that needs a decision goes to a planner for approval.

Questions

Open-time / trip trading — frequently asked

Does open-time support drop, pickup, and swap?

Yes. Pilots request drops, pickups, and swaps from the open-time board, and a planner approves — though a clean trade with no duty/rest violation can auto-approve.

Do auto-approved trades skip the legality check?

No. Every trade runs the legality check. A clean trade can auto-approve precisely because it passed the check; the check is never skipped.

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Every Part 121 workspace also includes the platform-wide backbone — logbook, credentials, compliance, reporting, and audit trail.

See the backbone

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