The line guarantee isn’t a limit to you, it is a requirement on the company to build bid lines.

All Open Time can be bid as Straight Pay or Premium Pay (150%). [Note: Charters are always 150%,and usually go senior] The contract defines in what order Scheds is to assign the bid-upon trips (Straight Pay/Assign to Reserve/Premium Pay). If nobody bids it straight, and no RSV is used, AND you are the senior Premium bidder, you SHOULD get the trip Premium. But sometimes Scheds plays around to split the trip to run it again, hoping to get a straight-time bidder.

For a new-hire, any Open Time trip you get, above your original line total, will be paid at 2nd-year rates, whether it was awarded straight or premium (2nd year @ 100% or 2nd year @ 150%). This is the High-Pilot-Productivity Indoctrination Program.

Others here on APC are better versed on the intricacies of Open Time for New Hires and Junior folk, so don’t listen to me. 😉