It was asinine to agree to this. At the very least, if DALPA was going to push changes in reserve (on behalf of the company) why not adopt Alaska pilot rules?

Bid short call for the month. Guarantee 79 hours
Bid long call for the month. Guarantee 75 hours. On long call you can be converted to short call a maximum of 4 times. The first time you add 2 hours to your guarantee. The second through fourth you add 3 more hours to your guarantee for a total 79 hour guaranteed hours of pay. You might still only fly 30 hours for the month and guaranteed 79 hours pay.
Bid Zones (ie no calls before 10AM)

The good news is if we ever merge with Alaska, DALPA will insist on keeping the worst of both company policies to help the company out and leave loopholes because our high powered attorneys thought using the word "may" shouldn't be a problem.