It was a trade and UPS is finding benefits.
Unpopular as it is, their are IPA benefits as noted. One not often stated, If not extended, 100% of the commuting pilots sitting RSV in ANC or ONT, MIA or SDF can leave 24 hours earlier than on the 2006 contract.
Most pilots are not actually extended, so most actually get the extra day off and home 24 hours earlier than 2006 contract. If extended, better benefits than 2006 contract
Regarding planning a vital appointment on the first day off after a reserve period, in all previous contracts, one could be extended for a few reasons such as weather or maintenance issues. Still can. still bid reserve occasionally ( bid for days off usually) and have in my entire career never lost sight of the fact that one can go into days off so never scheduled doctors appointments etc on first day off after block of reserve since in all contracts was a possibility of me not being at the appointment. I get the frustration but am aware of the background in our contract history (16 days reserve etc). Perhaps reduced on contract 2021

I'm not a fan of this contract giveback but on a SYSTEM WIDE BASIS , it isn't occurring at a such a frequency that we need to start losing our $hit over it. I've been extended more as a line holder than any of the guys I know who bid reserve. Yeah, I'm aware some guys are getting the shaft. As far as not being guaranteed off the day following an assignment, be it a reserve block or a line pairing, welcome to flying for a living.

LAP = Late Arrival Pay

It can be lucrative on the international trips. My experience domestically, getting home late isn't worth the extra coin that LAP provides. That's just me.

Or I got screwed on a pay calculation in their favor, imagine that ? !

Pay is figured as a new trip beginning at the end of your original trip. Usually that will be on the trip rig. If you get back 30 hours late, it'd be 30/3.75 for a credit of 8 hours. After that a penalty of 150% is added so in total you'd get paid 20 hours for getting home 30 hours late.

And if they are commercialing you back to domicile you can deviate and potentially get home close to when you were originally supposed to - It can be an awesome thing. Or it could work the other way too: get back to domicile late and over the weekend finding yourself with no good options to get home (if a commuter).

This would apply ONLY to domestic trips late if I am correct.

A international trip would pay 8x1.5 for 12 hours of pay for the late arrival. A 4 hour pay penalty for your 30 hours TAFB forced overtime into a day off.

Spoken like a SDF based pilot. Nothing personal, but most Mecca based pilots don't care about the plight of the other bases until it affects them. ONT had a gripe for a long time about co-terminal shuttles. Deaf ears until SDF pilots started doing it.

Couldn't agree more.

A little hypocritical - plenty of issues idiosyncratic to SDF, and all bases for that matter, that are irrelevant to people based elsewhere. As I said, I'm not a fan of this deal but at the same time a contract is a give and take and this was a give. And is it really a give for you guys doing RSV up there? What changed in practice? Same ship but now you get LAP, no? Plus, it's only due to staffing shortages so I'm sure it will start to bounce around the system and us SDF folk will get our karma. Regardless, no one is forcing you to bid reserve, fly the whale, or be ANC based, that's probably why it might be falling on deaf ears. But I do feel for you guys, never good when good things come to an end - pilot life.