Chow

Bidding to fly with the "bypass" or "reserve leveling" system or whatever is, dare I say it, useless. It only guarantees more ready reserves. Before the TA went into effect last March, a bid-to-fly was worthwhile. I could credit 90+ hours A MONTH on reserve at Clownair doing bid-to-fly. I made more on reserve some months than I do now as a lineholder.

By the way, the long call system is a laugh. There's nothing keeping scheduling from changing 'em all to short call. Granted, they need at least 20% of reserves on long call but who's watching? Another loophole that the company exploits that should have been prevented with appropriate language in the TA. That's what happens when your scheduling committee hasn't sat reserve in a decade. That's also why I voted "no" on that POS TA -- the reserve system at Comair is beaattch.