Originally Posted by
Cyio
To add to that, at Spirit you can almost always drop to zero should you need it due to the way their reserve contract is written. Think I read that reserves always have to be green or something like that, allowing line holders to drop virtually anything they want.
The company has to make the reserve grid a minimum 75% green during the first OT. This allows for us to drop just about everything (if we want). We have many junior FO or CA who lives on the west coast who want to hold a line in LAS. They bid to be based in FLL or MCO which allow them to have a line, drop everything and pick up in LAS. I just flew with one recently. He only had to commute to FLL once in 4 months because of this. He would be reserve in LAS but because of the way the system works he’s a line holder in FLL, but only flew 1 FLL trip in 4 months. For example, in LAS the only days that are red is Jan 31st - Feb 2nd. If you didn’t have a carry over you can drop everything. Some pilots will do this and wait for the phone to ring in the summer and pick up at 200%. Obviously this comes with a price. We don’t get legacy money but, how easy would it be to be junior in LGA, drop everything and pick up in LAX or PHX?