Originally Posted by
ACEssXfer
Yes and I disagree with your take on "excess" reserves. Lowering the LCWs will absolutely add more lineholders by spreading the same amount of block hours over more pilots and reduce reserve staffing. This is the same argument I had with APA during covid when we were trying to avoid being the only legacy to furlough. I was told it "had tentacles in too many parts of the contract." What they meant to say was "IMAXers will be angry with a lower window."
With that lower LCW if you want to work more its a few clicks away as long as they leave VMAX at historical levels. If you want to work less you already are, based on less hours awarded in PBS.
I wasn't calling you Mr APA. It was a hypothetical conversation that I apparently didn't articulate very well.
This seems to be the tenor of the discussions on the APA forums. The IMAX take is stop complaining about bad schedules and crappy months, just figure it out and get 2-4 months off (but instead of enjoying the break, pick up premium so you can brag about how much money you made).
So your life sucks on reserve but once you can finally hold a line (top 60% or so) then figure out how to IMAX and life will be good.
Maybe that's right but it takes a while to get out of the bottom 40 so I'm not really enjoying my QoL. Which again is the point of this thread. There isn't much flexibility on reserve and even less when you are very junior.