Originally Posted by forgot to bid

My thought on the old vs new reserve system is this; the old SHORT CALL system was broken and needed to be fixed, not the long call system. What we did was get rid of snakes in the house by letting bears in.

If senior pilots had anything to complain about it was an unpredictable, asinine and 0 raw score SC system. I could see where senior pilots were irritated with it, I know I was.

The fix was to revive the old seniority only system for LC and the result was the QOL for a majority of reserve pilots was destroyed while the top group retained the same LC QOL they had before. Seniority already was taken into account under the old system, senior pilots typically didn't fly to week 3 or 4. The difference now is for the top 25-50% who are perpetually at the top of reserve due to the high RAW threshold buckets and the bottom 50% are slaughtered with the changes plus weekend staffing requirements.

The SC changes should have been the only changes for at least a year and that's it.

Let me give you one anecdotal story. May 2012, buddy of mine matched had all weekends off minus one Sunday. He flew 11 days, sat SC another 3, total of 14 days dedicated to work. I had the same schedule but all weekends off, 1 sat 0 SCs and flew a single 3-day. I was at 30%, he was at 50%. That’s not a good system.

A lot of this mind you is a moo point. I think I see the company’s fix for preventing pilots from flying 0 hours and that’s having more 65 hour lines and cutting reserve by 25% or so. Maybe even more the next go around. That’s one way to get the average hours flown by a reserve pilot increased to that 60 PBS staffing formula number.

/two cents