Originally Posted by SEPfield

Exactly, thats by design. The company builds these trips intentionally so that with the carve outs it is still worth less than min day. They don't want pilots to pick up open time, it is actually cheaper for them to use a reserve, and if they have to junior man a trip it still only cost 30min more that it would have for a line holder.

Thats why we need the pilots that are able to SAP down to 75. There needs to be more open time than there are reserves in order to make critical pay cheaper than the slight possibility of junior manning.