Originally Posted by
seamonster
All the contract needs is a new slip for being on call. Maybe a PURPLE SLIP that puts a reserve pilot at the front of the list to pick up a trip when one comes in to open time, same day next day, reguardless of ROU. Senoirity bases that trumps it all. If that pilot wants 85 hours on reserve than so be it.
We had something like this not that long ago (Pre-consessionary contract). Called it a
"High Yellow" as I recall. If you were the senior guy on reserve, it worked out great, because you could do all your flying/reserve days at the beginning of the month by requesting to be first in line to receive trips and "fill up". That's where the problem came in. Schedulers would run out of reserve pilots at the end of the month and start giving out "Green Slips" to cover the trips. At that's how we got this reserve system.