Originally Posted by
Delta1067
Reserve bucket question here for the 7ER. If there is a 4 day trip in open time does a senior guy with 4 days of availability get it or does a junior guy with 8 days of availability get it? Same question for a 6 day trip. Does the senior guy with 6 days of availability get it or does the junior guy with 10 days of availability get it.
Because 7ER is an int'l category, the DOA buckets are 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 or more. So a 4-day trip will always go to a legal and available 4-day pilot, regardless of seniority or RAW bucket, before it goes to a 5 or more day pilot.
OTOH, a 6-day trip in your example would go to the junior 10-day pilot, assuming that both pilots are in the same RAW bucket and the senior pilot does not have a YS in for the trip.