Originally Posted by
Talon1011
R1 is home reserve. You are at your home and have either five hours or ten hours depending on time of day to depart from your gateway airport. By the new contract it appears the company is responsible to get you from your home to your gateway but I'm not sure. I live out in the sticks and it's better for me to get myself there.
R2 is hotel reserve. It can be in your base or at another location. The company provides the hotel in either case but you do pay tax on the imputed income if you are in your base.
R3 is hot reserve at the airport. You have to be able to block out 1+30 from being called. I've not yet run into anyone who has ever been assigned R3.
Talon,
Not to get this thread off track but the red highlight above needs some correction. The company is responsible to get you from you HOME and it doesn't have to be your Gateway. Thus, the reason it's called Home Reserve and capitalized as a legal definition in the CBA.
The Company can send a cab, limo, chariot, or any other mode of transportation to get you moving out of your Home. It's their responsibility and their dime. There's a recent discussion on this very topic on the Union Forum and I urge everyone to check it out as you guys are taking on expenses that you don't need to be doing.
So to summarize, Gateway Travel is something you excercise as a way to get to a trip or your base. Home Reserve is a "don't sweat it" 'cuz it's the company's responsibility and you may fly out of an airport that isn't your Gateway.
Hope this helps.