Originally Posted by
HB Pilot
Full disclosure though, the pool numbers on weekends are almost always worse than weekdays. That's because the greedy lineholders like me trade those trips in the initial. You may be able to do a bad for worse and get a weekend off but odds are definitely against it.
If you're considering a relief line, my advice was always to take a look at what's left in open time first. If you're a commuter, how useful are day trips and short 4-day trips that start at 5am on day one and end at 11pm on day four to you? I bid long call when I was on reserve and was a commuter and it worked better for me. You have to be able to get to base on 12 hours notice but if you live in a big city with a lot of flights, you can almost always make that work.
Good idea. My only issue with long call is that oddly enough, the long calls lines had little to no weekend time off. I would think that, being more senior, they would have more weekends off. But what do I know?
. This whole thing is like a giant experiment now, and I'm flailing around on a petri dish..