great analysis Adlerdriver.
The all known reserve is a gamechanger. I think number of r-lines used to be mandated by number of reg lines. "All Known" is now an unmeasurable huge hole to drive the scheduling truck through and allows scheduling to insure there won't be any days with excess crew on reserve. Looking at a given r-day will go from "Looks like I'm ## of ## on reserve today so I probably won't get called" to "Hmm, I'm # of # and I just got assigned an airport standby".
It is very unfortunate that there wasn't some cap or ratio to regular lines limit of the amount of VTO lines. So in order to gain a few possible advantages for the few who bid VTO lines we we forced half or more of our r-line bidders into the VTO bucket.
Wish our negotiators would start to realize when the company shows up with proposed changes they aren't just being nice.
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