Originally Posted by TED74

Cool story. Personal anecdotes abound. The sad fact of the matter is that thousands of Delta pilots, at all seniority levels and in both seats have found themselves - through no fault or intentional choice of their own - in categories with 10% or fewer blue days of Reserve coverage…for half or more of the year. With infrequent and unpredictable AEs, it is a slow process to escape such a category, and there’s no guarantee escaping any given category will help someone escape an undermanned situation.