I’d love to get junior manned into a day off once a month if it meant I stopped losing my line every other month to our shrinking bid sheet. I don’t know why you guys are so focused on this, maybe you don’t remember reserve?

Anyway, as my colleague rightly pointed out, what some of you seem to think is “normal guys and a vocal minority of entitled whiners” is actually the divide between generally happy 175 guys who’ve been on reserve for maybe 2-3 mos on average depending on hire date, and 145 pilots who are being awarded reserve involuntarily after a year and a half on the seniority list. It’s a radically different experience and while there is some overlap, the QOL is night and day.