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.
There’s been plenty of times where I was the only reserve to cover said trip when they call me for non-contractual offer of MUP because there’s no one else. That trip should’ve gone to aXY List Pilot. That’s where I was getting at with said example.
Now, I don’t care which way we go because I’ve gotten premium from once or twice from that and I also wished I could’ve picked up a trip in the fashion that you’re describing. I get both sides tbh. Again, totally up to the pilot group as a whole