Originally Posted by
buzzpat
Just an aside, for all of you guys *****ing about the new reserve rules. I ran into the #1 CA in LA today in the lounge. He bid reserve to essentially take the month off. He was on his second day of back to back SCs...and he commutes. So much for the senior guys getting over.
Give it a few months and see how it plays out. He didn't think it was so seniority friendly.
Back to your normal channel.
This new raw bucket system is only used as a tie breaker if all else is equal. Senior reserve pilots are still going to fly as there will be many cases where they will get trips before more junior reserve pilots. The #1 reserve pilot will get the 3 day trip if he is the only reserve pilot who is on 3 days of availability. The #1 reserve pilot will get the trip when he is the only one on short call whose contact times work. The only time the senior reserve pilot will get bypassed for a more junior pilot is when there are more junior pilots who meet the same days of availability. I don't see an earth shattering change. I'm junior reserve in my category and I haven't flow yet this month while a lot of pilots senior to me already have raw scores of 30-95.