An H-day is a hard day off. It only applies to the current "reserve" schedule. We get four a month and can place them as a set of four or two sets of two. Placing them properly can possibly get you a 7/7 type schedule and get you 21-25 days of vacation when you only use 1 week of actual vacation time. This is one of the things that many reserve pilots love and thus hate about the new proposal. This option is not there and vacation time is reduced.

18-day schedule is usually 7 day max, but during one tour in the 4-month cycle, the company has the option to work you 8 days. This schedule is posted on the 15th of the month prior. There will be PBS, but the company has a really long time to get the program started. 2 years, I think.

Another thing people don't like is the mandated use of the company credit card. This is not a no vote issue by itself, but many feel it is a poke in the eye. A large number of people use the Hilton AMEX to get 5 times the HHonors points. We stay at a lot of Hiltons on the road.