Originally Posted by
Busboy
Unless the reserve utilization is near 100%...Your argument leaks water.
If the company is paying one guy an extra 72hrs, and another guy to sit on his arse at home, for half of his R-days, for 60...They are wasting their money. Make that "OUR" money.
We've hashed and rehashed whether a loss of carryover hours would be used for new lines(less reserves), or higher BLGs. You figure out which a company would do if they're trying to cut costs. Seems that we've already reduced alot of carryover and I certainly don't see higher BLGs.
If you lower the BLG you create more flying lines and fewer reserve lines. So fewer guys "sit on their arse" at home.
A very effective way to lower BLG is to take hours out of the month's flying by attaching it to the previous month as carryover. We've hashed and rehashed this? Apparently not enough. JG seems to think it affects BLGs. He mentions it in his message line.
100% utilization? That's definitely not the number they are looking for. They need some reserves for those blips due to weather and sick calls. But if the average reservist flies, for example, 40 hrs it looks better when the RLG is lower. 40 hrs flown out of 58 paid is higher utilization than 40 out of 68.
Sorry, can't agree with you.