In the busy months, yes. But the staffing formula does not allow the company to fly all reserves to ALV+15 all year round.

It shouldn't be bad in the off months, however, if they reduce reserves in the off months then those who thought they'd be senior reserves in the off months will be surprised to find themselves a lot more junior than planned. And therefore flying a lot more than they thought if they went in thinking "I'll take a month off!"

I mean looking at February on my category, the lowly 88B category, they hacked off 20% of the reserves from January so the top 30% on reserve are 2001 hires or earlier. Middle 35%+ are 2007 hires, last 35% or so are 2008 and after hires. I bet the middle 35% (30%-65%) did not think they'd be in the middle because a year ago they were top 5%.

I bet if they get more and more 0 RAW 0 hours kind of guys then they know, hey, we're overstaffed on reserve, let's fix that.

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So who is better off? The junior lineholders flying around 70 block hours of the worst possible trips for 70 hours of pay, or the junior reserve flying 30-50 block hours for 72 hours of pay? I understand the reserve guys also sit S/C, but my point is that it sucks to be junior. When I was a junior reserve guy I would occasionally get a very good trip but as a junior lineholder never got anything but crap, 100% pure leftover crap.

I am all in favor for improving the system but want to keep seniority in the equation. I think the system can definitley be tweaked, but overall think it is pretty good.

I think we are all frustrated with the stagnation :mad: - I am coming up on 14 years and am still a NB FO. I am hoping once the movement starts we will all feel a lot better about our situation.

Scoop :)

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What time of day do they normally assign short calls for tomorrow?

Normally no later than 1500 mecca time, but if a need arises they will add SC to schedules after that and then call to notify you of it. The beauty is you don't have to answer your phone or check messages until 0000 so the earliest they could assign you SC would be 1200.

It seems to be random, but I've never seen it before 8am and they are USUALLY out by 10-11am (ATL time)

Just got my autonotification as I type this at 11:27am for SC tomorrow. It was on my line this morning around 8:45am but I was taking the FTB approach of pretending it hadn't happened and hoping it would go away :D

I resemble that remark. I had a couple of months as a very junior line holder during the fall and it absolutely sucked. I made a little more money, but it wasn't worth the extra effort...not even close. So now I'm sitting reserve and doing every thing I can to avoid going to work.

Very tired of the stagnation.

Thanks guys!

Ferd