Originally Posted by
crewdawg
That I don't discount, but if you don't have to run coverage for trips that aren't in open time... We have been able to run this airline without massive amounts of premium time, it can be done. In my short career, there was a time where one or two GS a YEAR was a "good" year. In some categories, GS#2 was almost unheard of.
It’s always gone in cycles. A key factor in the amount of overtime is however reserve utilization. When the reserve system was your on call 19 days a month in a 30 day month and 20 days a month in a 31 day month and it was a 24 hour on call with 2 hours to report greenslips were very rare. When the windows system hit we thought it was the greatest thing ever. You were only on short call 6 hours every day. The number the negotiations team needs and I am sure they have it is how are reserve utilization compares to the other major airlines. I have no idea what that number is however if it’s significantly less the company has a point. If it’s about the same they need to hire more.