Originally Posted by
DAL73n
I'll second that. Although, the widely held standard is within 2 hours of any of the bases we cover (which in LA would mean you could be 2 hours EAST of Ontario which could be "who knows how long to LAX) and in NYC I knew a lot of American and United guys who were on reserve with ACY (Atlantic City) being 2 hours from EWR and who knows how long to LGA or JFK.
AA has no reserve call out time. It's "reasonably available by surface transportation". Company tries to define it as "2 hrs".