Originally Posted by
SVCTA
what I’m saying is that the company is not staffing to sufficient reserve levels to allow for legitimate schedule manipulation as agreed upon in the PWA.
Originally Posted by
immolated
Are you talking about blue days before or after the 20th? In most categories, every day is blue before people start dropping on the 20th month prior. After the 20th, everyone who can drop does, and most blue days go away. If the company were to add more numbers to the blue days, they would still get dropped until black, then there would be even more trips in open time for res to staff.
I wondered the same thing while scrolling this thread. Blue days post-20th have almost nothing to do with "sufficient reserve levels", and everything to do with how many REG pilots dropped trips right up until the number turned black.
Pre-20th no blue? Yea that's not enough reserves.