TallyTarget64

Just like in the military, any day I don’t have to put on a uniform or shave is a day off to me.

Stop worrying about what anyone else chooses to call their unworked reserve days. If you don’t want to call it a day off then don’t, if you do then do. Some of you bicker and whine more than my kids.

TallFlyer

Reading that orginal post, I don't agree with his precise phrasing, but I do think days off, days at work, and days at home are all their own categories, which is the portion of his post that you went off on.

ImSoSuss

They are purposely mischaracterizing it when they say I have XX days off without mentioning that some of those days off was reserve duty not used. Way different than saying I have a line with 18 days off, which most people interpret that as.

FangsF15

Not correct. At DL, on Reserve there is no trigger for premium ("Green Slip"). It pays single pay on top of guarantee (72-80 hours) but you also get Payback (PB) days. If you have Long Call days remining in the month, PB days knock out a commensurate # of your next LC days. If you do not have LC left (or if your PB days exceed your remining LC days), they go in a bank, where you can turn them in to straight cash (plus 401k & PS), to drop a trip with pay, or supplemental vacation. Line Holders do have a trigger, but a GS pays double with no PB days. Also, only lineholders have a new option in our new contract, called a "Siver Slip", which like a GS, pays double but with no trigger. They are very hit/miss on availablilty though. Some NB categores get them a fair amount, some get zero.

If used wisely, banked PB days can result in an additional 5, 8, or even 10+hours of pay each, depending on fleet (by paying the block of the first day of a smartly-chosen trip, which on WB can easily exceed 10 hours). You wouldn't believe me if I told you how much one industrious WB pilot made cashing in 70+ PB days after 2022's GS-bonanza. I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see a screenshot of the time card. A NB pilot banking 1 PB day a month can easily cash them in for an entire month's additional pay. Ask any DL pilot about PB days, and they will tell you they are one of the gems in our contract.

None of this is a flex. Just trying to add to a discourse in a thread partially about my employer. I have no doubt some parts of AA's contract are better, and good for you - we don't have anything like IMAX at DL, for example. I don't know nearly enough about reserve at AA to have an opinion about it either way. If you say AA uses reserves less often than DL, then I have no reason to call BS. How many days do NB and WB Reserves get used at AA? Include SC if you want.

Personally, I love Reserve at DL, even before we got 18 hour long call, and tons of soft pay in the new contract. Sure it comes with tradeoffs, and living in base helps (though I liked it enough to commute to WB reserve by choice). I work less and get paid more than almost any lineholder I know, and that guy genuinely hustles.

Fair enough. Those who disagree are free to do so, I'll sleep just fine. I said my piece.

170Till5

They have unlimited PTO and work from home. lol they got us beat

AllYourBaseAreB

Anyone stating something like “oh, I average 20-22 days off and am making 85-90 hours” but failing to mention that they are on reserve and pickup extra time on days off, is a clown…

i have worked like 8 flights this year but I’m not going to say “ohh i average 28-31 days off and make 45 hours of pay a day” without adding some important details

Swakid8

This right here.... Just say, I have been reserve x amount of days and of those days I haven't used on x amount....

No one is knocking being at home on reserve... Just paint the full picture...