Originally Posted by 7576FO

The way I understand it, for AA reserves to pick up a trip on a day off, it must be offered by crew sched.

And as far as I know it has not happened so far since Jan 1 2013.

There is quite a bit of dhd'ing in reserves form other bases to cover trips when we are out of reserves.

Another little tidbit is AA likes to use TDY. If you TDY to a base 3 months in a row, then Crew mannning must create a vacancy.

We have a vacancy run for equip/seat/bases every month. I like that.

But they do move flying around conveniently using TDY instead of filling vacancy

AA reserves 24 off in 7 can be in a foreign city or domestic city not your base. So this gives AA productivity.
Other airlines give reserves a day off in 7 IN DOMICILE. That's a big difference.

Every other month i'm onreserve for up to 19 days in row. THis month i'm on reserve form 22 June until 6 July. They will send me on trips where I will get 24 off or use one of my moveable days later in July to fix a 7 day problem.

I'm in EZE right now. I had 36 off here. So i'm good for more when I get back.

I really hate the AA reserve.