No need for hating the 0 pre month credit. Some of us have a nice little niche of drop/swap/slip the broken trip. :D. Don't fix the company problems, profit from them. $$$

Credit in terms of our pay system and credit in terms of rotation construction are two separate concepts. It’s also separate from credit for PBS.

For rotation construction, credit is anything that is not block time.

For our pay system, everything is pay. Some things are credit. That’s why you can have pay and credit, pay no credit, or double pay no credit, but you can never have credit no pay. The items that are credit count against reserve guarantee because reserve guarantee is a pay and credit item. So SCC or a regular reserve assignment which is pay an credit offsets reserve guarantee. While a reserve GS on X days is pay no credit, and doesn’t offset guarantee. The WS pickup limit is a credit limit, so all credit items count, but pay no credit items don’t (GS, vacation, etc..). Where it gets confusing is the GS trigger. It includes all credit items, plus some pay no credit items like vacation. That’s why you see a separate line on your time card of “credit applicable to GS pay” which may or may not be the same as your total credit.

Any time the credit column is less than the corresponding pay column on your time card (and often it’s blank), the difference is paid above your reserve guarantee.

That’s at least half of understanding / QCing your reserve pay.

This post caused me to go look. Since January, I’ve flown about 6 trips that existed in the bid pack. I’ll continue to do that until they build trips that look something like the ones I actually fly; and I’m not even senior enough to cherry pick the really sweet ones (textbook ADG surfing).

Sometimes I hear the complaining, and I really do get it (senior people shouldn’t have to be super clever to get the schedule they want), but flying your heinous PBS awarded schedule or the exact LC days you’re awarded seems kinda lazy.

I’m all for a good GS getting you the days off you wanted originally for extra pay, but sometimes you’ve gotta plan stuff ahead so the awarded schedule is what it is.

This. Got a busy family life, and I fly what I’m awarded mostly because I don’t have much flexibility.

This is exactly why I drop everything and rebuild. Kids with weekend sports during the school year. Even on reserve I can't hold all weekends off, nor can anyone below page 4 on the wide report. So 20% or above thanks to the proliferation of 5 day trips. The top 20% are campers and won't move because of seniority so I'm screwed. Where there's a will, there's a way.

Thanks. This are the deets I was curious about.

Did you try ELSE START NEXT?

May the rantallions who OOBWS find themselves bescumbered by the leaky pipes underneath Concourse B in Atlanta. I would do the deed myself if not for the many cameras that protect the zounderkite who turn Greenslips into White.