Originally Posted by sweptback

I'm just a line pilot, but I have heartburn about this. If they can't cover a trip by in-base reserves, there's a way for them to cover the trip via the UPA. Maybe that deadheading from another base is enough to put a reserve over guarantee for the month? Or, maybe the company is perpetually understaffed in the base and really should post a vacancy bid for new pilots in the base? By you picking up trips in your home airport, you're denying both of those things from happening even though it helps you personally.