I'm not trying to change the topic, but I do have a proposal for C2015:


While our reserve system is much better than it has been, it still isn't as good as I think it can/should be. I would love it if reserves could:


1.) Pick up trips from open time before they are assigned a day out. I think United pilots can pick up trips 3 days out.

2.) Yellow slip for trips that are not in their silos and get them over pilots who have no yellow slip preference in.

While #1 might be a longshot, #2 shouldn't be.

I know the company thinks they want to match with reserves according to what silo they are, but in my category, I've seen a lot of pilots get assigned trip back to back to back, while others just sit there. There were three trips I YS'ed last week that went to reserves in the 4 day silo while I sat in the 5 day silo. All three of them were later called in fatigued (and after looking at the pilots schedules, I don't blame them.). What I'm seeing is that FAR117 is making fatigue calls more likely.

Maybe allowing pilots to YS trips outside of their SILO might help everyone.


Any thoughts?