Originally Posted by
jayray2
If you can hold it bid it. You will get an extra one or two nights at home at least. They will escalate you if they need more short call people but it might be at the end of a trip or just a stretch of two days. Look over the details in the contract. It isn't much but it is a slight increase in quality of life. Reserve rules are horrible here in general. How we justified a contract that gives line holders an extra week off a month and pays them more than people on reserve I will never know. That is 84 more days off a year.
Thank you for your input, the way I see it, I'm a new hire and bottom of reserve until LGA supposedly closes as Mesaba will not have any more new hire classes behind us. I am realistic about my situation and I realize I will be on reserve, so any increase in QOL is just a bonus. I will bid it and if I get it I guess I will see how it goes.
By the way, if I get switched to SCR from LCR, am I expected to show up within the 2 hour timeframe or would the switch happen the day before in that 1000 to 1300 period?