Let's Delve a Little Deeper into the Airbus bidpack shall we?
In June there were 196-71-55 lines published, a total of 322. But How can that Be, there were 359 Pilots on the Capt seat. Oh wait, 37 Pay only.
In July there were 196-81-36 lines published, a total of 313. But a total of 357 Pilots, hmm-that's odd. Oh wait, 44 Pay only.
So, 9 fewer lines published. Hmmm, still the Same amount of Regular lines but 9 fewer lines published. I know, in order to keep the Same number of Reserve lines, Company should've pushed the Average BLG into the 85-95 range. Sure, that would mean a lot of folks working a lot of days, but there would've been More Reserve Lines. And Even Better, Reserve RLG would be Higher. Yay.
Fewer Regular Lines though.
Darn, guess the best solution would be to publish Fewer Reserve Lines.
So, FedEx could've gone with the 196-71-46 matrix...but, they don't have to. Tradeoff for the ability to drop Conflicted R day blocks due to CIC, ability for entire R day blocks to drop due to Training conflict, and the elimination of Involuntary Reserve Line conversion allows the company to withhold 20% of the projected R day blocks. So, that would make the bidpack roughly 196-81-36.