Auto-Trade Disclaimer

General

The Auto-Trade feature is an extremely powerful feature of Crew Companion due to its ability to fire trip trades for you while you are asleep, out flying or just living your life. It also has the potential to ruin your schedule if you're not careful. Take care when selecting criteria to insure you fully understand the type of trip that will satisfy the criteria and generate an Auto-trade. Also, be careful to select a minimum pre-departure time that will provide sufficient time for you to get to the airport after the trade fires. Finally, you will be notified when Auto-Trades submit trip trade requests so ensure your notification methods on the Tools/Options/Notifications Tab are set correctly.

Disclaimer

We have taken meticulous care to insure that only trips that meet your criteria will be traded for. We have extensively tested this capability with our notifications before going live with the Auto-Trades, and while it appears to work perfectly, we make no guarantee that errors will not happen. We also cannot predict when the company will make changes that may affect the subroutines which check the criteria sets. This is highly unlikely, but is possible. You are responsible to fly your assigned trips in your DSPLOF regardless of whether Crew Companion executed the trip trade correctly or not. In summary, the Auto-trade feature should do exactly what you tell it to do, but we cannot guarantee it 100%.

How Auto-Trades work

When you close the program after arming an Auto-Trade, you will be prompted to minimize Crew Companion to the system tray. Selecting 'Yes' IS REQUIRED for your Auto-Trade to function. This is because your machine will be used to submit the DSPFAI if a new matching trip is found. While our server can NOTIFY you when new trips open, it cannot submit trip trade requests for you because to do so, we would have to store your Unimatic password on our server in violation of UAL's password policy. So, while your program is minimized, our server may occasionally send down a request to update the OPNTRP or TRDBRD. It may do so when no flight attendant has refreshed that data in the last couple hours. New trip info is then shared back to the server. As the server learns of new trips matching your Auto-Trade criteria, a command is sent to your machine to fire up and submit the appropriate DSPFAI command for that trip. This process is followed regardless of whether the newly found trip is open, on the trade board or even a charter.

Any changes to the eTripTrader, Inc Auto-Trade Disclaimer will be posted here. This policy is dated 5 May 2009.