Originally Posted by
Scoop
Guys,
Feel free to disagree with Alfa but I believe he is correct on what I have bolded above. Reserve rules at DAL have been a lot worse in the past. When I was hired you had two short call windows every day, 0800-0900 and 2000-2100 if I remember correctly, every day of reserve.
Granted a lot of other things were better back then, almost everything else as a matter of fact, but that does not change the fact that he is correct about the above. You could argue that it is irrelevant what the rules were back then, or you can try to make a case for them being relevant. If that is the case then I would say C2000 pay-rates are also relevant.
Scoop
But, prior to C2K you also had high and low yellow slips without regard to DOA, partial month move ups (allowed you to hold a line for part of the month) first out on a YS on an X day. This gave you a lot of control over your schedule and the ability to fill up quite easily.
C2K eliminated PMM and restricted YS to DOA, but also introduced the long call window we have now.
I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.