Originally Posted by
Justabusdriver1
yeah but what you’re forgetting in most cases there’s more than enough reserves to cover the trip the main difference being the one who wouldn’t be legal for it may prefer that trip where as the one who would get the call may not care or even would prefer not to fly at all.
when we aren’t in irops there’s maybe 1 or 2 premium calls a day in any particular base for the right seat. The left does have more. It might reduce premium by a small percent. But if all you’re doing is taking one reserve and moving him to a different rap you have one less reservist for the rap they were assigned. Another trip could pop up during that rap with one less person to cover it causing it to go premium. Premium are very much right time right place situations. They sporadically pop up and only in an irops can you see that list grow rapidly.
trips left in OT rarely go premium. It’s usually assigned to a reserve anyways. It’s day of trips where someone called out or operational issues that cause a lack of crew where those go premium.
Oh dear God don't suggest that premium be taken away with facts /s
Seriously though, while I love a 200% call as much as the next guy in my opinion there are better ways to consistently make more money for well pretty much the entire work group. At brand X we automatically got 125% (making up numbers because I can't remember...) for any hours above 72, 150% for any hours above 80 and 200% for any hours above 90 or whatever... so essentially we'd make 80 hours of pay just for flying the awarded line, and anything picked up in open time would essentially be automatically 150% or up to 200%. I think Frontier has some kind of system like this. You wouldn't necessarily have to give up X/Y or DTZ for this either and allowing aggressive pick up inside of 48 hours is a small concession to make to improve the quality of life for reserves. I digress however as I try to think of the good of the whole group and not just myself...