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Old 07-13-2017 | 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by sailingfun
If we could PD as a reserve and then fly over that day reserves would PD enough days that CS could not use them and then pick their own schedule.
So?

They could only do it if there were excess reserves, basically for the entire month, and would be saving the company money if they weren't successful and breaking even if they were. And its a pretty big gamble anyway that would rarely work out for most on a full month to month basis.

You could maybe leverage it into a net win, assuming all the stars lined up perfectly, by rolling thunder (sort of) but if that worked, then by definition pure rolling thunder would have worked too and that's way more consistently lucrative, and without the smattering of one days and SC's that (supposedly) commuters now have to be in position for