Originally Posted by SailorJerry

So you think Delta pilots aren't capable of flying 14 duty periods a month at an average credit of 4.28 credit hours per duty period? What a bunch of sissies. I flew well over 80 hours BLOCK on reserve before and I could do it again here.

And what are you talking about? Requested days off? So they're gonna tell the senior reserve he can't pick his days off?

Pilots have 100 hours of unverified sick leave available. They'll use it if they're on reserve. But the reserves are only 20% of the company. If the rest of the line holding pilots are at the TLV, I doubt they'll be so overworked they'll get sick. 76 hours a month? I could do that in 2 weeks and 4 days if it was all block. Based on my ratio here, I could do 76 credit hours in a week and 5 days. Where's the hard work? I don't see it.

They make drugs for this kind of paranoia. Were you ever an RJ pilot?