Yeah, the whole "barely on reserve" thing is totally irrelevant. Besides, airlines don't like to interrupt scheduled ops to do drug tests so you normally get them at the end of a trip or when you are no longer useful as a reserve.

Bottom line this is huge...failing a DOT test, getting fired, and tickets revoked. I suspect she is going to have to start in 91 or maybe 135. I'm not sure she's ever got a shot at the airlines. She has two hurdles there:

- The airlines would need to believe she has has done a 180 from whatever lead her down that road in the first place.

- But even if the airline thinks she's good-to-go, there is still this huge black mark on her record which will never go away. Think about what kind of ammo that history would make for a plaintiff's attorney at a civil trial...you can bet the airline will be thinking about it.

My guess is that there's no real chance unless a catastrophic pilot shortage materializes. They might be forgiving about a youthful incident pre-CPL...but on-duty 121? Not a chance right now. But it doesn't cost much to apply...