OldMako

At least someone has the thought to come up with some ideas about how to improve the quality of life for reserves.

What I read in your list is this, "incentify" (I think that's a word) pilots to sit the more onerous reserve assignments. So what you are really proposing is a seniority based reserve system, to some degree. The more senior one is in bidding reserve the more money is available for him or her.

Problem number one is this, some one always gets to be jr. and get dumped on.

The facts of life win this job is the pay is good, but being jr. just sucks.

Those things you mention sound good but it doesn't "fix" being jr. and having less, if any, control of one's schedule and therefore time off.

But, thanks for the response and maybe some of what you posted will show up.