Originally Posted by
crewdawg
This right here! It's a great tool and generally works well. If the company keeps building NB trips at 4-5 days, lets be sure the company doesn't try to up the NB "min on call days" to 4, during the next contract negotiations.
You guys do realize that they can and do break up trips? It's extremely easy to break up say, a 5 day trip that transits a base and farm it out to another reserve pilot, and they can use any base reserve, just depends how they decide to rebuild the trip. It doesn't even need to go into open time, the just put remarks on the rotation "reserve only" and send it out to be staffed. It's all done pretty much behind the curtain. It's been my experience on reserve that unless you are rolling thunder, or in a very overstaffed category, that you have almost no control over whether you fly, or not, even considering yellow slips.