Originally Posted by
pilotgolfer
What do the reserve staffing levels look like? Just looking at EWR, how many 737 pilots are based there and how do the numbers break down in terms of liner holders vs. # of reserves?
Does the company publish reserve useage...monthly hours flown by the reserves?
Reserve are generally 10% of the total pilots. 360 EWR 737 FOs.
The union has the flight hour numbers but averages don't tell the story. Once they've got a reserve on a trip there is a tendency to keep using him vice using a fresh, much lower time reserve, because they tend to hold a non-flying reserve back just in case. Kind of like hoarding, except with human beings. Consequently you can have guy breaking min guarantee of 72 hours, while another hasn't flown in 6 weeks.