Originally Posted by TankerDriver

It all depends. It depends on how they arrange their buckets. If all hell breaks loose, like it normally does, and they go through the entire list of reserves, it won't matter where you are in your bucket. They will use you. From what I've seen, if you, by chance of bad luck, work a lot in the beginning of the month, it screws your chances of proffering for 1-day trips for the rest of the month because you will always have people in lower groups than you who can proffer for those trips even though they're junior than you. I find that most of the real junior pilots either don't know how to proffer or don't know they can so most of them have an empty ballot, but there's always one or two that are proffer savvy. 3-day reserve blocks are the only thing that makes our current reserve system worth doing. I had almost 35 hours GTD within the first 10 days of the month in July. I was in the highest reserve groups for the rest of the month and I was basically screwed trying to proffer for anything else. When this happens, you're along for the ride even at 6% seniority on reserve.