I find it amusing that during the merger, the NWA pilots were giddy about the fact that there was a max of six short calls per month. Granted it sucked that the guarantee was only 70 hrs, but at NWA everyday was a shortcall unless you were lucky enough to get a long call, which was assigned each day and long calls were the very first pilots to go out (well, behind those who had recovery rights and our recovery rights sucked real bad and that is a different story). I don't recall ever being able to say that you were full for the month at NWA. I do vividly remember working two months in a row every single day that I was on reserve (18 days each month) and that did not make momma bear all to happy. So we wanted to let the reserves make more money and we have, but now we are upset because they might work more? Reserves get a pretty nice pay increase with this TA. Possibly 80 hr guarantee a month with the potential to not fly?