Originally Posted by
beis77
I suspect it’s a similar process as those who return from leave too late to bid a line. This happened to me when returning from mil leave, and crew scheduling arbitrarily assigned me my reserve days. For those senior enough, I believe there’s leeway to move x days, and they said potential of a blank regular line. For those most junior (now 220), I think the reserve days will be at the whim of scheduling.
You are entitled to have the appropriate number of X days placed on days that you could have held off on the initial PBS awards (and complies with the normal reserve rules for you category i.e. 3-99-5 for narrow bodies). A simple phone call to crew scheduling will take care of it.