I get the "but that's what the pilots wanted!" But again, pilots want this too:

• I have never commuted and do not feel large numbers of rotations should be biased to commuters.
• I a not a commuter and don't believe pilots living at domiciles should have to fly "commuter--long" rotations.
• STOP, STOP, STOP, showing ANY concern for commuters. I am tired of giving up/in to the company to appease this very vocal minority. MOVE, MOVE, MOVE or quit.
• I DO NOT want the company to build more commutable lines than we have right now..
• ALPA spends to much time working on commuters.
• I view commuting as a choice a pilot makes. I would not choose to live in ATL, but do so to avoid commuting. I am not generally in favor of tailoring our contract around those who choose to commute.
• Live 20 minutes from airport. NOT INTERESTED IN CATERING TO COMMUTERS.
• don't care about commutable trips
• I DO NOT COMMUTE, GET RID OF THE 4-5 DAY TRIPS. THE TRIPS IN MSP SEEM LIKE THEY FAVOR THE COMMUTER. ALL YOUR QUES SO FAR ARE FAVORING THE COMMUTER!
• The most popular trip in all domestic categories is a ONE DAY TRIP. Everyone wants to fly ONE DAY TRIPS. One day trips are never in open time because everyone wants to fly one day trips. The most productive and cost effective trip for the company is a ONE DAY TRIP. Please stop pandering to the vocal minority - the commuters by building a bunch of commutable long trips. MOST PILOTS ARE NOT COMMUTERS! MOST PILOTS DO NOT CARE IF A TRIP IS COMMUTABLE.

A lot of the reasons, well most all of the reasons it seems from watching that a senior pilot has flown a trip on reserve above a junior one (during the week when staffing is greater) is because they had a trip off SC. BTW, I haven't flown and am not close. I bid senior reserve, usually more senior than this month but that should return when lines get back to normal with higher ALVs. Still haven't flown. You can say I'm junior in category, yes, but senior reserve.

What I and Jesse are talking about here is are we going back to straight seniority or we doing some in between seniority and the old system? A high bucket is not the middle of the road but more or less back to seniority only.

Now sure you could say but there are plenty who disagree with that. ^^^ But there are plenty who disagree with seniority only reserve too. Who should win? A guy sitting at 85% on one category who is losing QOL who complains about this would be considered junior, even though they may sit in the top 1% of another category.

Seniority is relative obviously until you get to pilot #1. I am currently watching a buddy who is around 50-60 on his raw score, the pilot one number junior to him on the list and has been and will next week be in the same position is 0 flight hours. Could go on for a while like this.