Originally Posted by
Herkflyr
Negative Ghost Rider. See my earlier post a few back. No "justification" here, just fact-stating. It is CALLED the same thing, and COVERED at the same point in trip coverage. But it functions far differently, to the detriment of the company's flexibility and to the benefit of the pilot group.
Again, as far as I can tell, this is the ONLY place in the entire contract where reserve vs regular is not parsed out separately. The language is decades old, dating back to when reserve GS were extremely rare if not unheard of. The company is likely upset at the large number of PB days out there and all the aftereffects from them.
It moves a reserve pilot from the future when the company might need the reserve to now when the company definitely needs the reserve. It’s a green slip. It prevents a lineholder from doing a GSWC since it’s higher on the ladder. Reserve does his GS blocking senior lineholder from doing GSWC, then tells said lineholders that reserve GS’s are okay but lineholders’ GS are not.