Originally Posted by
Gspeed
To be fair, CQ helps facilitate it just like vacation. An extra X day due to staffing helps too.
Regardless, even if PBS partially ignores the set condition and gives you one block of 4-days (if it’s an extra X day month) or two blocks of 4-days (in a normal X day month), you’ve still mitigated any of the long trips.
Agreed. Personal choice/strategy whether you go for 2 4-day availability periods or a single 8 day. My point at the beginning is most NB pilots aren't expecting a 6 day trip to even be a possibility, so the 8 days of availability wasn't that big a deal.
I'd really like to see us eliminate covering trips with out of base reserves. If we do use OOB RES, then let's at least get them premium pay for the convenience to the company.