Originally Posted by
johnso29
They're pointless. Inviolate days at NWA were much better. There is zero penalty to scheduling for rolling a reserve into a Golden Day. It's basically impossible to make solid plans on days off as a reserve.
I disagree - in 3 years on reserve, I've never been forced to work on an X day or a Golden day. Once, there was a mechanical and I was going to be extended (rerouted I guess) into a golden day. I just called Crew Tracking, told them (as it says in When Scheduling Calls) and within 30 minutes I was going to get home as originally scheduled.
But you have to tell crew tracking, they don't know about your schedule, they only know about the trip you're on.