Originally Posted by
UALinIAH
It’s not hard. You get the greater of 3 buckets. If you can’t do 7th grade math then you have no business flying airplanes. The union has beat this horse to death trying to help pilots understand it. It’s your fault if you haven’t read everything the union has given you or if you can’t be bothered with going on the ALPA site and doing a little research.
It shouldn’t be this hard to be a union pilot.
You can imply I lack intelligence if you want. The long and short of it is we have four pages talking about this. If there is that much confusion surrounding it, a better system is needed.
As I have been on reserve pretty much my whole time here I haven’t had to worry about working for free in a vacation month. I do know the reserve rules pretty well though.