In my opinion, saying that junior people on reserve aren’t worth negotiating capital, or we shouldn’t be using reserve to fix our unfilled Captain positions is missing the whole point.

if reserve were truly built correctly, it SHOULD go senior! Who wants to be 63 years old and flying 90 hour lines? You should (ideally) want to bid reserve and barely get used. Bid reserve and have actual days off. Bid reserve and not get hammered with endless, random short calls/FSB. Bid reserve and yet still have some semblance of predictability in your life.

right now, none of those are true.

MRGS - Make Reserve Go Senior!