It always amazes that almost none of the crew members buckle their seatbelts in the vans. I always don mine. I've seen a lot of close calls.

"80 raw score represents 5 or 6 days flying and a short call and that is why we will stick with it."

So if I say something like "my pay raise is actually 5% 10% 5% 5%" does that make it so?

Maybe 6 days of flying and a SC that gets you a 2 day trip will get you into the second bucket, but 6 days of flying and a SC alone will not do it. Well, maybe if all 6 days are 15-hour days......don't know the parameters they're using to come to this conclusion. Find it interesting that even though this is patently false it's still put out as supposed truth.

In reality, bucket 2 of 80 actually requires about 40 hours of credit.

Interesting. I've been here since yesterday and all I've seen are old people and crew members walking around.

Yeah, I'm calling BS on that too. If that is what DALPA thinks 5-6 days and a SC gets you then they need to be drug tested. It's going to take more then that to get to a RAW of 80.

It's ok, there were 300 early outs as projected as well. :)

I'm referring to the size of the rooms. ;)

With all this reserve talk I figured I'd share my summer experience as a jr 88B in ATL. I acknowledge that I am jrand therefore I shouldn't complain. This is more sharing then anything else.

June: over 90 hours and one SC. I did yellow slip at the end of the month and bank.

July: flew ALV (I think 82 hrs) and one SC and got the last week of the month off.

August: about 100 hrs and one SC. Got a green slip as a bottom reserve and was called about a second. Never yellow slipped.

I was able to make some extra cash on my own accord but next summer I will be flying every single day to ALV+15 without a choice. That sucks. On top of that, I will now only get 12 days off during each of the three busiest months.

As you can see, I don't get too many SCs because I can't get a single weekend off and I am always assigned a rotation before I get a SC or the credit that should go towards a SC (assigned a rotation that starts more then 12 hrs from the start of SC). If there happens to be a day later in the month that I am in the second bucket (having flown about 8 days already) and am not assigned a rotation, I get SC because I haven't had any yet. Now I will probably fly before a guy who hasn't flown at all, simply because that guy was in the next bucket for SCs.

It sounds like ATLM88B is fairly tightly staffed right now? Looks like MSPM88B is fat right now (looking at Sept reserve levels) and NYCM88B is fat to so/so and CVGM88B is so/so.

How many MD90's do they have left to enter the system? Does anyone know what % increase in the pilot block hours will result from the additional 90's and when the deliveries will cease?

It looks like you volunteered to fly beyond the reserve max. If you do the same next summer then ALV plus 15 has no effect on you. You will also be considered full at a lower value next summer and have vacation and other leave periods counted toward being full which offsets part of the ALV plus 15. They can't fly you to ALV 15 once you have reached the reserve max. They can only send you out on a trip if you are below the max.