Originally Posted by
todd1200
I'm curious, what kind of reserve coverage does ExpressJet usually have? I would think that a system that withholds large amounts of open time, while providing increased schedule flexibility for lineholders, would need a lot of pilots to be on reserve who would normally be lineholders.
Unfortunately our contract allows the company to manipulate the min level numbers so as to make it so that there is no coverage and prevent any trip drops. But we can always do a bad day worse day trade. In fact, when the company tried to zero out all the coverage numbers, when someone would pick up a trip, someone else would do a bad day worse day trade all their trips for a day trip on that sole positive coverage day.