Originally Posted by
Purple Drank
In other words, it's possible for a reserve to fly up to 99 hours during high ALV months.
You said "over guarantee by no more than 15:00 credit hours." look at that euphemistic language. Why can't you say "ALV + 15?" Or is that to concessionary-sounding?
Anyway, I thought that ALV +15 would only be used in international categories--which is what you preached during the C12 sales job.
On the plus side, if you're flying 99 hours a month, you probably won't be able to sit all 7 short calls (which was another concession).
What you state is absolutely correct....of course what you fail to mention is that in C2012 the reserve guarantee was permanently raised for all reserves, forever. Further, you did not mention that with the old system, if you had vacation, mil leave, etc., that NONE of it applied to how much the company could fly you. So if you had 7 days of vacation in a month, guess what? The company could fly you to the ALV outside of those days. If you had even more days it was even worse. Now those days count against your "personal" reserve guarantee.
The ability to fly to ALV+15 was a concession, no doubt. However there were some positives as well. And let's not even talk about how reserve was "way back when." As it is it is a fairly good system we have. That of course is category and time-of-year dependent.