Originally Posted by Jack Bauer

These will greatly affect staffing numbers (more stagnation) and would make reserve potentially very abusive.

Reserve

o Reserve guarantee

§ Increase to 72:00 – 80:00 (variable with ALV)

So, does this mean you want the reserve guarantee to stay at 70 hrs? I think you will be in the minority with that opinion.

§ Max reserve changed from ALV to ALV + 15:00

There seems to be differing opinions on what this means. 1. Scheduling can assign up to ALV + 15 to someone who is below guarantee. 2. Scheduling has to call and ASK whether you want the trip. You can say know. (We kinda have this already with ability to yellow slip to ALV+15.

§ Ability to pick up additional on-call days for increased reserve guarantee

Okay, I'll agree this could hurt manning. My guess is not by too much.

o X-days

§ Increase to 13/14 for bid periods with a reserve guarantee of 72:00-74:59

I thought this was a good thing. How in the heck is getting MORE days off going to decrease manning and cause stagnation?

§ Remain at 12/13 for bid periods with a reserve guarantee of 75:00-80:00

This looks like status quo to me.

§ Max of seven for bid periods with a reserve guarantee of 75:00-80:00 (delayed until 14-hour int’l short call implemented under new FARs)

Okay, I'm dense. How does more shortcall increase stagnation and manning? I'm against increasing shortcalls from a QOL perspective.

§ Ability to pick up additional short call period for increased reserve guarantee

See above.