As a new hire on reserve, you will be sent to all Florida bases. You will be expected to drive yourself in a rental car all around the state. On some occasions, you will airlined out to meet charter flights in need of a pilot, to pick up planes from maintenance, and various other situations. You can also expect to do something on every reserve day.

There are no "normal" days off. SFB flies almost every day. Other bases don't. However, your days off will typically be Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday. Unless you are really senior, and most of the time not even then either, your schedule will not be commutable. Reserve is also not commutable because they are constantly changing what time you are on reserve at. Unless they assign you a trip prior to your reserve day, there is a 90 minute reserve call out. It typically turns in to a 16 hour day, or whatever the FAR max would be.

As a newhire, you WILL be based in Florida. Right now, the Florida bases are so short staffed that you are not normally TDY'ed out of the state. However, they just announced a four month long TDY to Myrtle Beach, which I assume will be assigned to the bottom FO's and CA's. They have also sent pilots TDY from SFB to PIE and PGD, but that hasn't happened as much as the West Coast guys being forced to do it.

If by some chance you were able to hold a West Coast base as a newhire, expect to be TDY to one of the Florida bases for 6-10 months of the year. Some guys only got stuck with it a couple months straight. Others got it for 9-10 months straight.

They have also assigned some newhires to the Airbus. I assume they are the most senior of the class, but I don't know that. Right now, with all the problems in the training department, new hire training is lasting six months, or more in some cases.