Originally Posted by
sailingfun
It applies to any long trips including 4 and 5 day domestics. We can ask the company to change it but I suspect the will want the offsets they gave us back. Reserve utilization was looked at long and carefully when this was agreed to. Actual data and schedules were used not idle speculation. It is going to have minimal effect. The 1 hour yearly increase in average ALV and 30 day months will have a larger effect.
If ALV 15 isn't the culprit here, why is it that we're seeing a significant increase in the utilization of at least the domestic reserves? The 88B in ATL is night and day from last year.