Originally Posted by
SSlow
Reserve while living in base really isn't that bad, except that we can't swap reserve days around. I understand that they don't want reserves dropping R days and intentionally checkerboarding the schedule, but I never understood why we can't swap green for green or especially green for red since it has a mutual benefit for both parties. Heck even the regionals let us do it that way.
because it was abused with the checker boarding last contract apparently. That is one thing that would be nice to have back. We had it temporarily during Covid and it was actually considered a plus for the company. Was part of the cost saving to save the last handful of pilots from furlough.