Originally Posted by
Zoomie
If the reserve guarantees were higher than the lower built lines, then they would go more senior (in theory) than a junior lineholder. This makes previous junior reserve guys happy since now they are junior lineholders instead of commuting to reserve.
Previous junior lineholders now get a higher value paycheck in exchange for being on reserve, or if reserve goes even higher than junior lineholder, than previous junior lineholder becomes mid level lineholder.
The only people that I could see that wouldn’t benefit from this are the most senior widebody Captains. Most pilots here at United will never be a widebody CA.
In theory, that was in practice on the 777 in DCA. Lines were being built to a low average with little if any open time. Reserve seniority was well into the lineholder range. They tended to make more money with the guarantee plus shortcall counts and rarely worked.