About Reserve:

You are trying to please 3 groups, The Company, Senior Reserves, and Junior Reserves. Good luck.

The company wants to minimize staffing. If it were up to them, every reserve would fly what he's being paid, or more.

In the 'old days' the senior guys didn't fly much on reserve, while the junior guys would fly a lot, and some would even time out, but very few senior reserves ever flew to 70+, unless they wanted to. Even then, the company would try to send trips out to someone with less time, so nobody broke the cap while some were well below it.

So the Junior guys want to share the love with the senior guys, but obviously, senior guys don't want any part of that. The company wants them all to fly to the cap.

There will never be a perfect reserve system, because those 3 different groups all want something that benefits them, at the expense of the other two groups.

The most you can hope for is some type of compromise, which is why we have what we have now.

The best thing you can do is;

Get off reserve!

Especially if you commute!