Is this the PBS Staffing Formula? Which T, I see it as a category specific one. Maybe wrong but it's what I read.

If so, if a given number of hours will be flown by the entire category you could take hours away from regular pilots and bring it back to reserves while reducing GSs. If you could reduce slop coverage in case you run into an exceeding an ALV issue with a group, then I'd guess you could run the same number of hours with fewer pilots overall. But that reduction still goes through the meat grinder staffing formula.

When it is all said and done after you run that through the formula you could probably drop the reserve coverage by... a 10th?

Just a guess playing with the formula. And that's also based on the fact that I doubt we exceed 60hrs per reserve in most categories and could increase the hours per pilot without exceeding 60 although it is a meat grinder.

Doesn't sound like a lot, if 18% of the flying pilots at the airline sat reserve and you shaved 10% off then it's about 200 pilots.

But if you can cut into some of these international categories like the 744 holding 30% on reserve vs ATL 777 having under 20%, then you trickle down the pain again. So whereas you might not kick pilots out of the company or off the 88, which sits at #26 of #31 as the preferable place to be in case you don't fill out your vacancy preferences, you could kick them out of the bigger higher paying equipment.

That's just a paper napkin look, it's worth what you paid for it. Now if someone from the inside wants to post the real numbers...