Originally Posted by
kronan
In the Present, those 15 days go into the VTO system, as is. RA, RB, or R24. In the Present, the person awarded that 15 day R line has converted it to all Flying, through the almighty power of Conflicts.
Not saying there aren't benefits for our side. Just that they come with a price.
Those 15 R-days have no requirement to be assigned to anyone. Have you tracked every R-day block during the view/add and secondary process to ensure they remain in the system and are actually assigned to someone by the time the bid month starts? Doubt it. There's also no requirement for those R-days to be assigned.
And, yes, the person who may have sat reserve for all 15 days or a portion of those days now has flying instead. But that has a huge benefit for the company who now has a situation that's stable with far less moving parts (i.e. is the target reserve pilot available for the right days, do they need to adjust RA to RB, do they need to move R-days, split the trip, etc.)
Originally Posted by
kronan
In neither the Present, nor the Past, did the Trips our notional Reserve Conflicter here picked up make it past the Secondary System to be flown at Draft or by someone else at straight pay.
Maybe, maybe not. But the point is that currently only one pilot has to get paid for that trip and those 15 R-days. You can't say that those 15 R-days didn't exist to cover the very trip that's now being flown in their place. Maybe those R-days aren't actually needed any longer. Big company win. Before, two pilots were getting paid for the same (roughly) block of work days when the whole block of R-days wasn't knocked out. Sure, it's a benefit to that one reserve pilot who avoids R-days in the crash pad. But lets not pretend that the company didn't want this just as much as our junior pilots.