I have nothing to be scared of. I don’t know what you’re seeing on APC, but my posts there have been sparingly few the last sevral months. I read there mostly. Alyeska, I’m 100% read only. It’s the same 10 people going on and off about anything.
I never said long call is amazing. I tried it once in April or May 2019, never again.
1, it’s a paycut. 75 vs 78 hrs, and now short call is 84 hrs, long call is a bigger paycut. Unless you get converted a lot.
2. You are bottom barrel so you get forced long call convertible.
The downside for you is, unlike before the new contract, now assignments look at seniority. That’s why you are being used more. Say we are both in the same base. I’ve done 10 hrs and you’ve done 40 hrs. Assuming we match same days available (that’s always #1), then now it looks at seniority. And you’ll be given the trip because you’re junior to me. Yeah that does suck for you. Flip side, old contract, I would get the trip at 10 hrs cause I was lowest credit guy, and see people junior to me and they’re home not used. That is the opposite downside.
So choose your poison? There’s a reason 600 people skipped upgrade - junior reserve sucks. And just fit the record, when I upgraded, it was a displacement into an upgrade but I was still in the bottom 10 at one point in 2018.
For you to minimize flying, always preference no trips. Then to avoid redeyes, preference for short call RAPS from earlier to later, avoiding preferring the latest timeframe SCR RAP offered (eg, 1600L).
I’d have other tips for bases other than SEA to avoid redeyes, but you’re in mothership base and there’s always redeyes. Some bases, redeyes are reduced on a certain day of the week. Like Tuesday. So I like to start rsv day 1 on a Tuesday for example.