Originally Posted by Denny Crane

Naw he couldn't get into med school but law school is a shoo-in!!

Unfortunately I am serious about the raw thing!! And that's what it is raw!! It came into being so that open time could be more evenly divided throughout the month between reserve line holders.

Under the old system a senior reserve guy could request to fly and could fill up for the month in the first half or so. If the more junior reserve guy had days off scheduled in the second half of the month, the company was now short. This allows them to more evenly assign trips thru the month to reserve guys. Seniority is there but only under certain conditions.

The company's wet dream is to fly all reserve guy to 69:59 (70 hr guarantee) and then have the month end.

What's really a pain in the arse is that international category reserve guys get to sit 24 hr short call while domestic guy sit 12 hr. You both get 1 day credit towards your 6 day maximum short calls per month!

Denny