Originally Posted by Sink r8

Can you expand on that a little?

My recollection is that we had to be available twice a day for a brief window of SC (I think 2 hours in the morning, 2 in the evening), but I wasn't in an international category at that time. Then again, in international categories, as they stood then, you could pretty much plan your sleep and your activities to coincide with a slew of predictable departures within a fairly narrow time window. Assuming you flew at all: there was a time when Reserves were used for contingencies, not as unscheduled lineholders. How much would you actually fly, in those days?

Perhaps you could more precisely describe those circumstances where you sat 24-hr SC, six days a week, and were called out frequently, at very different hours of the day, at Delta? I'm not being sarcastic, I'm just asking.