Originally Posted by tsquare

Thanks for the perspective. I think the other part of this is that we cannot operate that way either because we are a different animal in terms of the scope of operations that we perform. For example, you as an ER reserve cannot fly a 3 day Europe trip then turn around and fly a trip to GRU or Asia because of theatre restrictions. Domestic to international has it's own particular pitfalls in this area which might preclude that kind of reserve system. The question would be then, what is the answer to those issues? On first glance, one might think that those restrictions might be better for us because a reserve is illegal to fly back to back trips in that configuration. I would think the company would balk at that because it makes us less efficient rather than more. I would balk at it because 14 days of SC would SUCK.

I agree with you that ALV needs to be 75 hours for reserve, and the buckets need to be lowered if not eliminated altogether.