Originally Posted by
ImperialxRat
The only reason you’re limited to Open Time only on reserve is because it benefits the company. If you pick up an Open Time trip for extra money while on reserve then the company gets to keep whatever pilot is on reserve that day that would have been assigned that trip from Open Time.
If you were allowed to grab pilot-to-pilot trips to increase your line value while on reserve, that does not benefit the company.
But it doesn't hurt the company either. You are on your days off. Only way it might hurt the company would be if you were bumping up against your FAR limits. That would only happen if you are breaking 79 hours every month regularly. Or more likely if you worked 7 days in a row (pick up plus a Reserve trip) and were close to getting 60 hours FDP. Either case seems very unlikely.
It only hurts the Union in that pilots are working "more" than they should given that the Union ALWAYS wants more pilots and wanting a daily min guarantee no matter who picks up the trip (aka you get paid 5 hours regardless if you do a 3 hour turn that you grabbed from Pilot to Pilot). Kind of hard to negotiate that if guys are willing to pick those up all the time......which actually helps the company.