Originally Posted by
hockeypilot44
You're on reserve right? Stop trying to break guarantee. Unless your category is short-staffed or an irregular op happens allowing you to green slip for a day's worth of pay, no credit, you are getting paid 70 hours/month and not a minute more. Just accept it and stop trying to manipulate the system. The system sucks and is designed to keep us from breaking guarantee. If that's not enough money for you, then think about that when you vote for the next contract that ALPA jams down our throats. I made less than 80,000 last year on third year pay on the Airbus (I don't count per diem as money). It's not that they can't use you. They won't because there are reserve pilots out there with less time than you. In ATL on the MD-88, there are on average 2-3 trips a day awarded to reserves with about 10/day awarded to white slipping line holders. There's usually 40-50 pilots on reserve per day FWIW. As a reserve pilot, you are a second class citizen. Don't even get me started on my ALPA buddy banking 90 hours/month by white slipping trips, then dropping them for ALPA business. Rant over.
I'm under 40 hours and there's one day left in the month. Do you really think I am trying to break guarantee? And that number is higher than most in my category. I just like to get out and fly rather than sit in a crashpad all day, and honestly the extra per diem helps too. I'm not complaining though, I don't really mind so much either way, I'm just trying to understand the system better.
On another note, in a way it's good to rarely go over guarantee. I know a few people on reserve at Continental, and they are worked nearly to death. They go over guarantee, but they are miserable because they are worked so much.