1) If you are on Reserve you can not pick up open time on your days off, unless you tell the company you want to work (Green Slip) and the company needs you to work
Line holders can swap and pick up open trips with other pilots and lines that are in the POT.

2)Not that I know of. (Example on Reserve you could actually get paid for 120 hours and really only work somewhere around 60 hours, 'cause of the Green Slip that I mentioned before.) It's a tricky system to perfect but it can be done.

3)It all depends on what the bean counters say we made as a profit this past year. But, it should at least be around 3% or so this year.