Talk about being selective!! Old Mako was spot on for 9 out of 10 things and you want to jump on one thing, and discredit his whole write-up. Absurd! Old Mako had it right that L-UALs reserve setup was much more transparent. That's the overall problem. You could see the reserve manning for each day of the month on one calendar page. Also the FIFO list was crystal clear, since it showed all the pilots for that day on reserve, even the ones that got assigned a trip, and it actually made sense. All the information was located on one page and 'if' you wanted to tab to the next pages, then it showed the remaining reserves (those that were on their days off).

As for assigning SC's, scheduling was trying to abide by the "must assign by 11 AM" rule, as much as they could. It was followed 90% of the time. I fought them tooth and nail whenever they went outside this timeframe, and they didn't do it too much. Occasionally they would add one later in the day, but they were hit with grievances on those immediately. They did have periods they tried to assign everyone SCs, but once again, they got hit with grievances and it settled down. FSBs was almost nonexistent.

I careless how bad the L-CAL reserve system was. The current system needs to be fixed. Blatantly assigning SCs and FSB with no rhyme or reason has to stop. Not being able to effectively see FIFO, without having to put it together like a CSI episode, must get fixed. There are plenty of senior guys, like me, that want to bid reserve, every now and then, so I'm sick of hearing it's for the "junior guys". Reserves need to be fully addressed in Full SEC 6. I believe our current MEC chair will rectify this atrocity.