Originally Posted by scambo1

Not a grammar nazi, but you must be posting on an iphone because you keep saying moo point and it is moot point. I know I've had my share of misspellings.

On the 777, senior reserves skate out of short call and callouts too. Junior reserves do 6 sc's a month.

I think readily available pilots are gold to schedulers in every category...I think they'd like to have everyone live in base and be on s/c 24/7.

Being on reserve can be a good deal - like you had last winter. It can also be a bad deal because daily credit stinks - hard time is hard to come by domestically on reserve - the deck is stacked against you. I have had domestic months like Elvis had and I was younger. They still kicked my butt. Put yourself in the miserable shoes of a commuting reserve narrowbody domestic pilot.

The only thing a domestic reserve pilot can hope for is to not work, but we all know hope rarely materializes into reality.