Originally Posted by
dalad
The only time we had a hard 75 hour cap was with pilots on furlough. We had a flex up to 82 hours at the time. Reserve paid 70-77 hours based on the cap.
I'm pretty sure (but it was a long time ago) that when I was hired (1985) the cap was 75, all year. I think the flex up to 82 came along later, maybe 1991 or 1996? We also had bow wave and spill back to handle the over/under, but the only way you got paid more than 75 was with a greenslip.
Oh, and we had about 30% of every category on reserve before PBS. We are down to less than 20% now. That also helped stagnation, as more pilots are flying more time, and can pick up to ALV +15, obviously we need fewer pilots.