Originally Posted by
Coach67
It's Credit value. It's far from meaningless. For the guys that fly and break guarantee (and there are a lot of them) it goes into their pocket. For the guys that try and dodge and stay home, it reduces the Copmany's availability to assign more trips to them.
True, however if the company were ever to even assign Field Standby it would be during a month that they were fat on staffing. In my experience, when there are lots of reserves, it is rare to make above guarantee. In fact, in your scenario, UAL could give a reserve 8 FB's for 40 hours credit, assign another 30 hours of flying, and the reserve still wouldn't break guarantee.