Originally Posted by
SEPfield
Which is fine. The goal here is to make the company burn up the reserves. If the reserves are being used to cover our assigned flying, which will be necessary if pilots don't pick up open time, then the company will not have a buffer to cover; sick calls, maintenance, or weather issues, as long as pilots don't answer the phone on their days off. Which results in flight cancellations.
I guess that's the big question. Are there enough reserves to cover all the open time that will be left? Don't we currently have reserves that don't fly?
Maybe we not only drop down but focus on a certain part of the month as well? If there's 11 reserves available say the first week of the month but 15-20 open pairings, there will be cancellations. For the month of Feb, TYS varied from 4-14 available reserves. If open time is all spread out during the month, it might all get covered.