I agree. I do not think that a few premium trips indicate any understaffing at all.
I need to grab my iPad and read the contract, but I believe it's set up to create a lot of premium trips. Anything that falls into open time after reserves are assigned trips following aggressive reserve goes into premium, right?
I remember thinking, while reading the TA, that we should see a fair amount of trips drop into the premium folder.
And unless reserves are flying more than 50 or 60 hours a month, we ain't under staffed