Originally Posted by The Cavalier

That's just it. There was never a provision that didn't allow a pilot to go above the ALV if they chose to. Now we force them to.

It's funny because on 3 different occasions in the past 2 years I have either hit ALV or come within 2 hrs of it. On 2 other occasions I've probably come within 3-5 hrs of ALV and the result was more less the same. This was all in a domestic category. So I don't buy this idea that reserves in those categories don't fly enough to see a degradation of QOL. I understand that the summers means working more but now that we've moved the summer months to 30 day periods now we're talking min days off. When you're working every on call day the added extra 2 days that you could look forward to were valuable.

The idea that you have to be ALV+15 to be screwed is flawed. Not being full is bad enough but there will a lot of ALV+5 and ALV+10 going on which is bad enough. Taking OPTIONS away from pilots is never a good thing. Furthermore if ALV+15 is a rule to cover 12-14 day trips, why not make AlV+15 a intl category only reserve rule?