Originally Posted by PK387

For 2024, looks like it was 6 months traditional reserve, 4 months VEC, and 2 months LH in June and July. VEC pay helped bring up the average a lot, but now that the word is out about it being a decent deal, I can't even get close to holding it any more at 35% (except in summer, and I'm not dumb enough to bid it then). Other than that, it looks like it was really just a smattering of all the random stuff that chips in a little add pay here or there. My average reserve month in 2024 was MPG plus:

11.6 VEC (when I could get it)
6.6 unused short calls
6.0 vacation
2.2 long unaugmented duty day
1.7 early assignments on day one (20-K-10-a)
1.6 overtime (20-L-5)
1.6 disrupted day off (20-I-6-b-(5))
1.4 VDO
0.8 late built SCs (20-K-10-c)
0.5 long sit time
0.4 quick report from SC (20-A-4-b)
0.3 reassignments (20-I-5)

Overall for the 10 months of reserve, average was 102 credit, 19 block, 74 TAFB, and 2.5 nights on the road per month.

So far for 2025, I'm averaging about 87 hours of credit for roughly the same utilization. That's due to factors both external (reserve going more senior) and internal (had a surgery, had a kid, etc), making me both less willing and less able to play the game this year. That said, 2025 is probably more representative of a long-term, sustainable average for an in-base reserve NB FO (at least in my neck of the woods at this current snapshot in time).