On face value I'm not sure I want to see this either. Maybe someone could explain how this works without undermining the reserve system and seniority.

I flew with a senior Captain recently who expressed concern that junior guys are bidding carry-over reserve lines and then conflicting with another reserve line to allow them to pick up CIC trips which, as most realize, are awarded before Open Time is released or VTO lines are built. Current rules allow this so you can't fault anyone for doing it but the Captain was concerned that very senior trips were getting picked up by very junior guys out of seniority.

Please don't shoot the messenger! I am high enough on the F/O list that I haven't bid reserve in 10 years.

This is my two cents however. If we don't deal with this LOA now we will have to expend resources and bagaining chips during negotiations to try and fix it then. Where will it fall on the list of priorities and what would we forgo to insure it was fixed? Before or after 777 pay, lump sum, optimizer issues, etc. Where do you want to insert "Fix the LOA"? Let's deal with the LOA now as a stand alone issue.