Originally Posted by
tsquare
In August, I had X days from 15 thru 28. So in the first 14 days of the month I flew 8 crossings for 72 hours. I thought that since I was above the guarantee, I was done for the rest of the month. good thing I checked my schedule on the 28th, because I was given S/C on the 29th. Soooo the point is that the reserve rules need to be changed. If there are categories that don't utilize the reserves, up the min guarantee to 75, and also make it so that if you are within X hours of that guarantee i.e. 5 hours, you are DONE for the month.
By guarantee do you mean ALV? If you flew 72 hours and that put you at or above the ALV for the month, then in fact you are done. They cannot assign you a trip that takes you above ALV unless you have a yellow slip in. They could put you on short call if they want (I guess), but they cannot use you at all so its kind of pointless. Of course the ALV can change each month - so one month you may time out at 72 hours, the next, it may take 82. The few times that I have gone over ALV (I had a yellow slip in, then pulled it after I was assigned the trip) I have not even been on the reserve availability list for my remaining on call days. Reserve guarantee is 70 hours, but that has nothing to do with how they can assign you trips.