I agree with the frustrations regarding the NWA reserve system. You have to bid for long call on a day by day basis, so you might get long call one day and then short call the next, then long call, etc, etc. This means you have to commute back to base in the middle of a reserve stretch since you got a short call day in there. I think we should do it like they do over at CAL. I believe they bid for the entire month either short call or long call. Long call at CAL (I think) has a reduced guarantee however. This is the price you pay for not having to sit in a crashpad in base waiting for a call, well worth it for 5 hours or so of pay IMO. Real time trip trading would be nice as well, and an upgrade to the software we use to make it more user friendly. On the upside, the commuter policy at NWA is great, we should definitely keep that.