Originally Posted by
Raptor
Last, no matter what we think about vacation usage, I think everyone agrees that 20% of reserve lines removed from the bid pack means more numbers of VTO lines than we have currently to fill the void. And, PBS/VTO is more efficient in scheduling pilots so big, big gains in the hundreds of millions of dollars to the company by pilot staffing avoidance.
Therein lies the problem. If there were 60 reserve lines and 50 VTO's before, now there can be 48 reserve lines and 62 VTO's (or less, with efficiency gains). There are senior people who live in Memphis that bid reserve, certainly many of them after the TA will not choose to bid a VTO, where they don't even know when they'll be working until the last minute.