Originally Posted by RJSAviator76

Something else United pilots didn't want or don't care for, and that is the ability to trade between line holders and reserves. Southwest pilots can trade between line holders and reserves. It helps junior commuters and those who live in base who may be senior but may want to stay home. One can pick up reserve blocks from open time as well regardless if you're a line holder or reserve. I've made a killing doing this during COVID and MAX grounding when people were picking up everything at straight.

Lots and lots of ways to play the game at Southwest and inflate your check - it's not just limited to high season and holiday flying or getting lucky to get paired up with a check airman.

Some senior people here have caught on to the concept and our RCO has some pretty senior people on reserve and with some changes to our contract, it just may make reserve more attractive because the company can no longer split up or export a trip if there are legal premium bidders in base.

Originally Posted by RJSAviator76

Something else United pilots didn't want or don't care for, and that is the ability to trade between line holders and reserves.

Originally Posted by jdavk

UAL has trading between line holders, but I'm not sure about reserves.

Originally Posted by jdavk

UAL has trading between line holders, but I'm not sure about reserves.

Originally Posted by RJSAviator76

Of course. Trades between line holders are the norm.

I'm talking about line holders trading their trips with reserves for their reserve blocks and vice versa, so say you have a 3-day reserve block as a reserve pilot, you can trade with a line holder for his trip. As long as both are FAR legal, nothing stopping you from trading between reserves and line holders, swap entire lines and schedules, across the bases, etc.

Originally Posted by ThumbsUp

You don’t even trade with line holders necessarily here. You just trade based on reserve coverage. Easy way to get 20+ days off each month. Pilot to pilot trades are a thing, but that’s less common.

Originally Posted by RJSAviator76

Of course. Trades between line holders are the norm.

I'm talking about line holders trading their trips with reserves for their reserve blocks and vice versa, so say you have a 3-day reserve block as a reserve pilot, you can trade with a line holder for his trip. As long as both are FAR legal, nothing stopping you from trading between reserves and line holders, swap entire lines and schedules, across the bases, etc.

Originally Posted by TimetoClimb

It would throw off the pay principles of a reserve guarantee versus a line credit value.

Originally Posted by PK387

Sure, but why couldn't we just call the value of a reserve day (4:17:39) LPV instead of MPG? Make it all the same bucket and then you'd be free to mix and match at will. I personally would love to see composite reserve/line hybrids here at UAL, I just don't think the masses will ever care enough to get it into a contract. Too many people are content to just fly their lines. Nothing wrong with that, but I think there's QoL to be gained by increasing options available to everyone.

Originally Posted by TimetoClimb

I'm all for it. Seems like the company and union have a different system in mind though. Making reserve more appealing though pay incentives and days off. Which require reserve for the entire bid month to calculate the incentives.
at least the add pay category is enjoyed by reservists as well. That makes all the difference