Originally Posted by
sailingfun
While changes to reserve certainly have had a impact on manning the big driver in the companies ability to go to 15 percent reserves is PBS not the reserve logic.
PBS smoothed out all the ups and downs in open time and eliminated the log jam at the start of every month. It allowed the company to start the month with virtually zero uncovered trips. The 15 percent in reserve manning lost was to a certain extent covered with a increase in regular lines.
OK. A portion of the difference between 30% and 15% was PBS, and a portion has to do with the ability to bring all Reserves up in flying together via the RAW system. I can't quantify each, but the difference in the two types of Reserve systems < 15%. Good point.