Where did all the Reserve lines go?
 

The July Airbus bid pack has 36 reserve lines for Capt. Previous months were June 55, May 56, April 48. I'm sure I missed the memo, but is there an explanation for this other than we suddenly have a lot more flying or lost a bunch of Captains? Standing by to be enlightened or ridiculed for my ignorance.

Welcome to PBS. I think the new VTO process has moved much of R-lines to the secondary build.

EURO Capt Feb 28 lines 17 reserve and 11 secondary
July 32 lines 7 reserve and 14 secondary

Was there a re-interpretation of the contract or an agreement with the Sig to reduce r-days?

25.A.4 Unless waived by the SIG, at least 80% of all known reserve days, by
crew position, shall be built into reserve lines published in the bid period
package; however, all known R-24 blocks shall be built into reserve
lines published in the bid period package. Remaining reserve days will
be made available as reserve blocks, in the View/Add window, and
Secondary Working Window (SWW).

I think that we have seen 100% in the past and now with the new SLG process they are falling back to 80%,

Refer to FCIF. Not PBS. Enhanced bidding process SLG .. SoMany Lines Gone

Backdoor PBS.

NC got played again.

LOL. We are the dumbest unionized work group in the US. Just to be clear. It’s embarrassing.

Back door pbs. Completely unnecessary to hide 20% of r lines to get rid of reserve conversion, but that's how it was sold.

Who defines "known reserve" anyway? Us or the company? Is there even a definition?

You ain’t seen nothing yet. Just wait till we voluntarily freeze one of the last remaining A Plans in America.

Key word is voluntarily

Yes, started last month in the 75 and was discussed. This sucks.