Originally Posted by
GogglesPisano
Yes. In a perfect world. But if we have inadequate reserve coverage (OCT NYC 717A for example) the PB days are next to worthless.
There's always NOV, I suppose.
But what I'm saying is, if you have adequate coverage to drop, then you're better off dropping a nice fat 4-5 day trip. It's worth so much more when PB days don't have a max drop value attached to them.
No coverage, then you're stuck with a reserve line and have to fly all of it, which is why I would never advise that strategy unless it is abundantly obvious that coverage will be blue.
You can drop one third of a month's work with 4 PB days in a good lineholder scenario.
A reserve line would never allow such a thing.