Big difference when you credit 130 hours as a lineholder vs 85 as a reserve. I’d guess that a reserve is blocking more hours than the lineholder.

If you're in a bid status that gives out a lot of premium, the reserve game is to put yourself on the PR list the day prior to when you start your stretch of reserve days. Especially on a WB, that PR trip will almost always make you unable to fly the final two days of your reserve availability. So you'll end up flying three or four three-day trips for the month, all for premium on top of guarantee. Obviously you'll need to be in base, but that's how these cats are pulling down 150 hour months without breaking much of a sweat.

That's what im saying, very rare and bid group specific. You will see none of that from my bid status and i don't care how senior you are, you're not getting OG over reserve days much less PR over them lol. Also bad/irrelevant information for those new coming in (this thread is about annew guy asking about reserve flexibility) who won't see the fast senority movement those previous had seen post Covid.

Bingo.

I do believe in the right circumstances reserves can more consistently credit higher than lineholders, but there’s a lot of variables that go into it such as what is your advertised call out time?

Haven't seen PR in my status go out since the new contract; pretty sure, excluding an epic IROP, it'll be AWOL for good since RAS is way more efficient and there's always MUchers sniping the OT.

Yep. While my $/hr rate has gone up significantly with the new contract, my credit/TAFB ratio has decreased quite a bit, so the effective $/TAFB gain is quite a bit less than the rate increase percentage would indicate. We gave them way too much efficiency.

Last year I did reserve 50% and lines 50%. Lines were 50-80 hours block, reserve was 8-50 block, $538k tc at roughly 50% in seat. Block was just under 500 hours. 3rd year pay FO doing the same would have been around $340k tc.

I guess I don't feel that is unreasonable amount of work for the compensation we are getting. This month I did 3x 4-days, and 1x 2-day and dropped the 2-day. Block for the month will be around 43 hours, with another 2:45 in DH. I could've picked up like 3-4 PMs 2-days already but decided to just chill cause reasons.

You must have picked up a lot of premium. I am on 3rd year pay and haven't been able to get a single premium trip all year. 340k gross would be extremely difficult for me to get, that's 130 hours credit per month, every month.

I did some, but not a lot. 2022 and 2023 were the big premium years for me. That figure was total comp (tc) so included training pay, per diem, 401k contributions and overages, vacation and sick payout, etc. I don't know what my base comp was (ie block x hourly pay).

Are you living in base? What’s your callout time?