Can you produce any source for this? I read everything they put out. I went to the show. ALV 15 was a demand by the company to allow them to cover high time trips easier. International was used as a example because in some international categories there were trips that could not be covered by any reserves. It also applies to 4 and 5 day domestic trips. Never did I hear it was a international only item. We could certainly have said no. The company could then have responded by changing trip construction and basing in ways the pilot group might not have liked.
Instead we choose to trade ALV15 for pay and manning improvements in other areas. It now appears we got the better end of the deal and pilot actions in how they are bidding show that the new reserve system is preferred to what we had. Items we got in trade include reserves full at a lower value, known absences counting toward full and a automatic increase in required manning in any category where reserve utilization exceeds 60 hours. There also was a reserve only pay increase.