Originally Posted by Herkflyr

You say "it was easier to fill up"...even in a vacation month? I would disagree with that. Yes it is not a 1-for-1 substitution, but under the pre C2012 contract vacation did not apply against your reserve obligation at all!

You could have had two weeks of vacation before C2012 and still owed the company up to the ALV worth of flying. That can't happen now. While I was not thrilled with giving the company the ability to assign a reserve pilot up to ALV+15 the number of those instances I am guessing is a whole lot less than the number of reserves in vacation months who are now flying less than they would have in the old system.