Originally Posted by
rickair7777
You mean preemptively pick up trips while in a reserve duty block, so you don't have to rot in a crash pad or because you hate your wife? Yes, you can do that, but only company OT that was going to a reserve anyway.
Do you mean pick up on days off and credit over reserve guarantee? Yes you can do that too, although it can be shut down certain due to contractual triggers. I'll let others address the availability of OT at the moment, although normally in general there should be OT since the company likes to run lean on pilots (last couple years have been strange due to boeing issues mainly).
I was referring to picking up flying over my reserve days to have more of a known fate rather than sitting in a crashpad. Is there truth to picking up +/- 1 day of your bucket? Or is that folklore? How many reserve days a month do people get awarded on average?