Originally Posted by
disenchantMINT
I'm happy for you that you care more about not burning reserves (and, therefore, not increasing total staffing) than not abrogating seniority.
I can see both sides of this coin. As I said before it’s not a given that every month that a pilot who bids to a junior base to hold a line will be able to dump their whole schedule and rebuild out of base, particularly if their award is heavy on weekends or holidays.
If they are able to drop and add in the base they can’t hold a line however, unless B6 has some hard and fast reserve language, the company can easily side step adding more reserve pilots by building reserve assignments from other bases. I’ve flown with a number of reserve FO’s from other bases recently on a four day to staff my three day.
There may be pitfalls or unexpected consequences that need to be considered, but to say it “shouldn’t even be discussed” is also short sighted.