There’s a ton of ways to skin the cat, but my technique as a junior lineholder was to work premium trips and have them drop my normal trips with pay. They’re short enough on the CRJ they’ll go for it most times, and once you get a reputation of helping them out with it, they’ll start coming to you with that offer. It’s a single man’s game, but I never had an issue getting 12-13 days off while still hitting 5 digits each month on that jet. There was no premium pay in 2020 really, but the epic schedule instabilities still allowed someone with a little bit of flexibility to stack some serious cash, especially with all of the cancellations in March/April/May.

can’t do it on my current jet, but at least my hourly rate is better and the air conditioning works… and I’m secretly enjoying sitting reserve in base.

Senior CRJ guys don’t need to play as hard, their hourly rate plus soft pay and bonuses is enough to get them to that marker unless they post their trips.