Originally Posted by JustInFacts

No need to wait, just look at the November bid packs. It doesn't count towards 4a2bc, yet they were still buying up lines to 76 hours. Some pilots were getting 15+ hours of buy up before we exited 4a2bc. This, while they were constrained by the limit on carryover and CIC hours. The company could have easily increased their reserves and had average BLG in the 86-90 hour range and argued that the business demands of peak require different manning models than the rest of the year. That was the intent of excluding those months from the SAM for a 4a2bc exit.