Originally Posted by
barabek
Reserve levels are very low?! Have you checked the numbers lately? There's a reason senior FOs bid reserve. I've been very happy since I started bidding reserve in September, and will be doing so at least till the spring. There's no reason to bid lines with 19.5 tfp 3-days when you can sit at home for 18. The premium won't be back until they reduce staffing which may not happen for a while.
I've seen PHX PM reserves go to or near to zero a few times in the last couple months, many of them flying trips that had several POT bids. Maybe it's just PHX PM FOs that are like that, using up pretty much the entire reserves on lines that had multiple bids in DOT and HOT? I think almost every reserve trip I've flown in the last couple of months went through open time and had a whole bunch of people bidding on them. Which brings me back to my point, even when reserve levels are low if you're bidding POT it's essentially the same as telling the company to go ahead and send it to reserves.
I'm not saying *should*, I'm describing what I'm seeing over my last several months on reserve. And the day before thanksgiving, PHX PM FO reserve availability went to zero sometime before noon.