BluDevAv8r said:ACA Section 4.A.1
A. Reserve Line holders Bid Period Guarantee
The pilots adjusted monthly guarantee will be increased to a maximum of 80 hours for all credited, assigned or actual flight hours in excess of 3.75 hours on any regular reserve day (not to include ready reserve assignments). A pilot with more than 80 hours of assigned or actual flight time, towards guarantee, will receive the sum of all credited hours for the month in addition to all hours credited above guarantee.
This is the magic section in the contract. Read is carefully. You have to remember that once you were able to get your TOWARD guarantee back up to 80 hours you still have to add in the ABOVE guarantee stuff. Most of the ABOVE guarantee stuff was airport standby but there were many ways to get ABOVE guarantee. For one if you picked up a trip or reserve day on a day off then that day was ABOVE guarantee.
So… when you added the ABOVE to the TOWARD of 80 hours, I usually ended up in the low 90 hours while some actually where in the high 90's.
One more thing to add. We were able to trade reserve day with ourselves. When you traded a reserve day to a day off the new reserve day is now paid ABOVE guarantee because it was originally a day off. You could do a couple of trades in the month if you did not get airport standby and this would have the same affect.