TFP on Reserve
 

For those of you on reserve, how many trips for pay are you earning per month?

As I understand it, it's generally 15 days on / 6 TFP per day [if unused] = 90 TFP.
Then, if you get used, trip rig brings it up to 6.5/day TFP minimum.

I'm curious what you all are crediting on reserve each month. I've seen some insane numbers by guys & gals on reserve working 14-16 days/month. I'm curious how TFPs get so high on reserve.

I am a 100 tfp a month type. I hold weekday reserve in my base; there are less weekday reserve lines so I usually get used. The big money is during chaos when you get extended past the original block in or when you get moved up for the next day after you’ve finished the previous day’s flying. Those legs pay premium.

Some people will get their utilization way up early and then grab a couple reserve days out of open time when the coverage is high in the hopes of not getting used later on in the month. Not days off per se, but a
good way to boost credit without too much effort (hopefully).

I was reserve in March and credited 125 tfp without doing anything extra as well as calling in sick for a 4-day block. That was the first month of fully "regular" pay since October where there was no incentive pay added on top of the trips. Every day I worked paid higher than 6.5 tfp.

110-115 is reasonable. Just let the reroutes flow

They are getting move up pay once they are on the assigned trip.

Move up and reassignment pay when their single DH back to base ends becomes several flying legs

When I had to do reserve I usually got 110+ per month. Max was 142 on straight reserve line nothing else.
when I chose to do reserve on slow months I'd credit 115+ but I usually picked up a turn or two because I wasnt used every day.
I'd say on reserve with a fly preference you'll get 110+ min.
With a pass and senority and not picking up you'll do 100.
there are ways to manipulate reserve and how you get used and when to bid it.

The Reserve lines lately have been mostly 4x 4 day blocks. So you’re starting at 96 TFP, but we’re currently at 92% reserve utilization according to SWAPA. So you’re going to fly 14/16 days right now. And with the rigs going up at that point, so rough estimate, 110 TFP? It seems like there’s an extra 2 TFP added to every 3 day trip I’m flying lately, just dealing with everything.

new hire buddy of mine is at 106 with 4 days left and 2 unused earlier in the month. 110 seems easy on rsv without any OT.

Reserves DO NOT get move up pay. They are pay protected for changes once the current day begins only. If scheduling changes anything the following day, that's your new base pay for that day and there is no premium involved with that. The best chances for pay improvement without picking up extra days is PM lines (PM blank lines count too)