Originally Posted by deltajuliet

Does anyone know how these arbitrary reserve buffers are established? It's set at 23 for the last several days of November in Dulles. Seems like extreme overkill, and I've been told they don't release anyone on their last day unless they're at least two net reserves over it. My last day on happens to be Thanksgiving, and I'd love to have something intelligent or persuasive to respond to Crew Tracking with after they blindly tell me I need to sit the last three hours of "FDP" in Dulles after flying/deadheading all day.

Any ideas or tricks that've worked for other people?