Originally Posted by DAL 88 Driver

You need to qualify that a bit. If you happen to be in a category with open time and fairly good reserve utilization, you can do quite well. For example, my first three years or so on the 88 as a Captain (on reserve) I averaged over 80 hours per month. Then it slowed down quite a bit and I only made it over reserve guarantee (70 hours) a handful of times. Since I've been on the DC-9 in MEM, I think I've only had one, maybe two, reserve months where I was able to get over 70.