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Originally Posted by flyallnite
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.
Actually, it does have to go into open time and they must follow the coverage steps in Sec 23. When they come to the step for out of base reserves, they can add DHs to both ends to make it work and that is where you will see "for reserve only."