-ALV +15. This is primarily to allow greater reserve utilization in categories that have mostly long international trips. (...but will crew scheduling run with this for all categories? Of course they will.)

-Surprisingly (to me, anyway), was their contention that the new reserve rules will not translate to less pilots on reserve. Scrappy (negotiator/ former scheduling committee) explained how higher reserve flying will increase numbers of reserves required under the manning formula. (Greek to me.)