Last year I remember sitting reserve and not flying at all because CS was deadheading in DFW and ORD crews to do our flying and this way the numbers in NY looked better i.e. adequate staffing. I would see a 3 day open up and then watch a DFW crew come in and CS's logic was that they needed for AM standby the next day blah blah blah. For awhile some guys in ORD would drop their entire month and pick up OT around the system. Again taking flying away from guys in their base. I don't care what the system allows you to do or what your seniority allows you to do it was garbage. Eventually they blocked OT and stopped approving guys who requested to drop an entire month.