Think about it from their perspective. Stick with building 11 day off lines and the pilot group will think it's business as usual, despite 90% of the flights canceled. Now consider what the pilot group's reaction would be if most of the reserve lines had 14-15 days off. Pilots would say, "wait, you could have been doing this all along?" That would give pilots leverage when this pandemic is over to get more days off each month.

This is just the way they think. They're not fooling anyone with those cute PR videos about how appreciative they are and how we're instrumental in keeping the airline up and running. We understand that airlines are in uncharted territory right now, but we'll keep doing our jobs as well as we always have. That said, commuting on reserve is pretty bad. Guys having to commute on what few flights are left and paying out of pocket for hotels during a pandemic is pretty rough.