Which just circles back around. On a relief line, you can have 12 days off with 18-19 duty periods in a month. Toss in a commute, and you're at less days off/at home. Or you you can do reserve, have just as many and sometimes one more duty period in the month, and work LESS for that 75 hrs @ @23.05. It's all a crap shoot, and again it's about wants/needs as well as expectations.

It never ceases to amaze me when flying with a pilot that held a relief line for the first time and is b1tching about how crappy it is and wasn't able to trade for anything better. Usually the same guy that b1tches about the grueling 3-4 months he sat reserve as a newhire.