Originally Posted by
freezingflyboy
I'm not sure what your issue here is. I'm sure AWAC, like pretty much every other place counts every hour flown towards your guarantee. So I guess another way to look at it is if you get used less than 75 hours, then the company was paying you to do nothing (or paying you more per hour that you did fly). A lot of guys whine about being phone liable and within 2 hours of the airport all day and I get that, it does clip your wings a bit. But in this modern age of cell phones you can, for the most part, still enjoy your normal daily life. Go to a movie, the mall, the gym, a park, the lake, float in the pool, work in the yard, whatever. Hell, keep your bag in your car and you can pretty much go anywhere and do anything and still make it to the airport in 2 hours. You don't have to sit and stare at your house phone all day long.
I'm not sure why more people do not have a problem with this. Sure all flying at most airlines counts towards guarantee, as it should for line holders. But for reserves, we make ourselves available to the company for 15 hours out of the day. For them to completely discredit what our time means to us, is a slap in the face. Essentially you are making yourself available to the company for 15 hours out of the day, and unless you fly more than 75 hours for the month, you get paid nothing but per diem for whatever flying you have done. Your time may not mean much to you, but to me it does, and I figure 4 hours of credit for a reserve day is not too much to ask for.