Originally Posted by
tsquare
From my experience, trying to game the reserve system to fill up early is futile. They will keep you at the bitter end of a long leash, and give you a very dull knife with which to cut it.
Yep, they chop up trips, stick a bunch of DH in there before you know it the trip is as productive as a Gate Gourmet crew at 10 minutes before shift change during March Madness.
They chop them up, fly them out of another base, every trick in the book, to meter out the time (pay) with an eyedropper.