Your math might be a little fuzzy... Now, if you have 13 bid periods of 28 days, and you seem to be assuming that you get 11 days off each bid period (I don't know which contract you're comparing us to and if that's even accurate, but we can go with it). Great, that is 143 days off a year. Split amongst 12 bid periods, it averages 11.9 days off a month to get the same number of yearly off days. If you're purely reserve, SkyWest actually bases the bid on 19 duty days a month, which works out to be 137 off days in a calendar year, which is a difference of 6, not 11. If you're going to work more than that as a line holder, then you're going to make a lot more than 75 hours that month. These days at SkyWest, reserve on the jet seems to be short and fleeting in all but the most senior domiciles, and most of the people I talk to are breaking guarantee if they are on reserve. That usually means about 90-100 credit hours a month. Yeah, you could have fewer days off, but I'm not sure that it makes a 28 day bid superior. Are your days off being rolled? (Changed arbitrarily by scheduling) We don't do that here. We don't change your award during transition to stuff more flying on you. Also, our bids encompass the entire calendar month (give or take, usually February takes a day or two from January & March to even it out, and Halloween used to fall in the November bid) so there is some consistency there instead of just every four weeks. And you only have to remember to bid 12 times ;-) There is so much more to life at an airline than just base pay rate and monthly guarantee.