Originally Posted by sailingfun

When I was hired reserve was 19/20 days a month. It was a 2 hour callout all the time. Essentially 24 hour short call all month. Sometime after that we went to the window system. It may have been the 91 contract. The windows were 6 hours a day. Normally 8 to noon and 5 to 7 pm in my category. You were obligated for short call in the windows. You were on long call outside the windows. I don't remember how many hours you had to report from long call. How much we flew was just like today. It varied with staffing. I do recall that I could often fill up before the end of the month and get a few extra days off.