Originally Posted by
tcraft
I have been hearing some people talk about some pretty low reserve times, which is good news to my ears because I eventually want to commute from Minneapolis to Memphis (or Detroit if that's what I get). I was wondering, on a typical month of reserve, how many days I can expect to get off. And also, if they are generally in sequence or if it could be 2 days on, one day off, 2 days on again.... I realize that it's gonna be a whole different game when I'm to that point with all of the new hires getting out of training but I was just wondering if anyone could shed a little light on this. Thank you!
Reserve schedules for Mesaba are 11 days off per month. Typically there will blocks of 5 days in a row...sometimes 4 in a row. If I recall, there can be 1 block of 6 consecutive reserve day in any bid month. For the most part, blocks of 2 days of reserve will appear at beginning of month or the last couple of days of the bid month. I currently work in the Mesaba training department and I don't forsee being on reserve for too long. It depends on base, but I would think it is less than 3 months if in DTW or MEM.