I'm a long time lurker, but thought I'd add my 2 cents.

First of all, I normally bid reserve. It really POs me to work 15 days for 60 hours, but adding insult to injury, I can't move/drop R days due to insufficient reserves. I planned on dropping my schedule and picking up trips (if I could find them). I can't even move the majority of them, and many of these are weekdays.

From the company standpoint, we are very overmanned (hence the large drop in BLG.) So overmanned that have to cut hours. If we are so overmanned, why are we still working 15/19 days on reserve? Why can't we drop (or at least move) reserve days?

I've been trying to drop since 9:30 PM on Thursday (MD-11 FO). Anyone else having this problem???

This is total BS!

End of rant....