Originally Posted by
finis72
1979 through 1985, stood reserve many times, it was 24/7 when you were on call. I don't remember when they went to short call windows. You lived life normally except for no alcohol and I had a beeper. When the beeper went off you called crew skeds. I had a few zero dark thirty call outs and never remember feeling unsafe. The system we have now is way better in so many ways.
That sounds worse than 8 days off a month, 90 minute call out, and unlimited conversion to airport ready reserve where you couldn't even go outside security (haha yeah right) flying 80-100 hours a month.
Maybe "we don't know how good we have it" isn't a valid point. Maybe "it really could be awful" is more appropriate.