Originally Posted by
Right Engine
The anecdote above, that senior people are working lots of weekends in July, is because BALPA/BA have recently incentivised weekend work that enables you to accumulate points that result in you not having to do 21 days of standby in a row (called ‘Reserve’)
So now if you’re junior you might get a few more weekends off than you used to, but you’re going to do a little more reserve as a consequence.
No it has nothing to do with the trippling of the weekend points. The graph was from just before the weekend points got trippled.
Since the first day of the introduction of JSS I’ve had 3 weekends off and 2 of those were because of holidays, the other one I worked every other weekend that month I already made cap during those trips.