OK, thanks.

My perspective on this current reserve system comes from a period when I was not commuting. I dismiss some of the whining you allude to. If that other business is so important, do that other business. Or get a hard line, and drop a trip or two on occasion.

I'm more specifically focused on the fact that you're almost invariably on short call or flying (rarely long-call), AND you can't control what trips you get, AND the raw score differential of 15 does very little to put you to the front or back of the pack. The 96 system, when I worked under it, was the best I had ever seen. The LOA 46 system is only marginally better than the worse I have had, and only because of Whitlow.

Speaking of Whitlow, I'm sure you're you're factoring that it into the history of reserves, not just at Delta, but everywhere. The main reason reserves improved in the last decade was the elimination (on the domestic side only) of the 24-hour reserve system, with no scheduled breaks. So I would certainly maintain reserve is not something we ever expended much negotiating capital on.