Terrible advice here from T.

More than likely a person with a lot of payback days is an F/O the 7ER or smaller because the people who earned a lot of PB days in the past year were F/Os on the 717, 88, and 320.

Therefore, these people are now either still on narrowbodies or are the plug on the 330/765 at best.

Therefore, they are still on fleets that will result in working almost every single reserve day.

The best use of PB days is to bid a line and drop workdays worth 6-7 hours.

Bid a 25hr 4-day trip and only burn 4 PB days to drop it with pay.

To accomplish the same net time off result on reserve would eat up PB days much faster.