Granted it’s base specific but back in the day, before we had a trip rig worth a crap, bases like DFW was pretty much all 4 days that start at 6am and end at 11pm. Best pay you would see was 22.5 if you had the long overnight kicker. So those 3am phone calls were always coming in for those early shows. R11 and r19 were awesome because you only had 5 raps vs 6, so it went senior and you were never used unless it was a red eye for the R19

So in the end, every pilot will have their own hatred for RAPs based on the time and base they were on reserve. And when I was on reserve, that r3 was the worst.

Luckily now with the higher trip rig, the company doesn’t want to pay crews to be 92 hours TAFB, so we see more balanced schedules.

So much better now