Originally Posted by
RJSAviator76
It is.
Something else, we can also trade pairings between reserves and line holders too and across bases. So if I'm LAX reserve and want to trade a LAS lineholder for his trip, we can do that too. I don't know why most if not all legacies don't allow trades between lineholders and reserves.
It's a holdover from when reserves were supposed to be for emergencies, and not to staff the airline. Also, back in the day "reserve = junior" so everyone else gets to pad their schedule first.
As for the out of base thing, it varies, and some places (Delta) are very parochial about "their bases flying", stemming, I guess, back from when everyone was supposed to live in base. Even the contractually permitted out of base stuff gets some people shouting. But my friends from the NWA side just shrug, and say it wasn't a big deal at all there because everyone commuted anyway.