I'm trying to wrap my brain around our current and future reserve obligations. I'm just about 9 weeks from starting my 28 th year and find myself on reserve in January in ATL on the 320. I REALLY don't like reserve but here I am. Here is why. Delta offered all 320. Captains that had January vacation to sell it back to the company. Apparently to cover 717 trips and charter ops with the new FARs.

System wide- 690-vacation days were given back. 89 pilots participated.
In ATL, 10 pilots participated for a total of 71

That equates to 38 percent of ATL320A pilots on reserve! Even if you're just about to start your 28th year! Yikes