Originally Posted by
nopac6
You're saying that if you're on reserve at SW and you pick up a trip (ON your reserve days), you get paid for that trip over and above the reserve guarantee? By picking up the trip, you're making yourself unavailable for reserve duty. Why would you get paid for the trip you pick up AND for being on reserve (when you're no longer on reserve).
Like Dave said, it's always been that way at UAL (and every other major airline that I know of). Picking up trips on reserve just gives a person more control over their schedule which makes commuting WAY more tolerable.
No thats not what I'm saying. If I pick up an open time trip on a day off it is paid separately from my reserve guarantee -- extra money over and above my reserve guarantee of 6 TFP per day or what I fly, whichever is greater. I may have been mistaken on the previous post about how it works at United. Please clarify -- if you pick up an open time trip at United on a day off and you have NOT exceeded your reserve guarantee block does that trip get applied to your reserve guarantee or is it paid separate? Thanks for the clarification.
Thunder1