Historically at UAL we’ve treated RSV as a necessary evil to be bid away from at the first opportunity rather than a very effective money making game. Comparisons like this underscore that point. No RSV day off pickups at UAL. Closest thing we have is called a VDO which is like trading off days for RSV days. It can pay well but it’s at the company’s discretion & they really don’t like doing it so it’s pretty unreliable.

Some contractual improvements coming in August will make it a little easier for RSVs to bump up their pay, but in general to make a big paycheck on RSV you have to work a lot.