Originally Posted by
worstpilotever
Hey guys another reserve question....I live in a domicile other than where I am based, I have asked to pick up trips where I live but been told that a reserve is never allowed to pick up out of domicile no matter how short they are. Is this true? I could not find anything in the contract about it, but as I mentioned, I am not that good at reading lawyer talk.
I'm just a line pilot, but I have heartburn about this. If they can't cover a trip by in-base reserves, there's a way for them to cover the trip via the UPA. Maybe that deadheading from another base is enough to put a reserve over guarantee for the month? Or, maybe the company is perpetually understaffed in the base and really should post a vacancy bid for new pilots in the base? By you picking up trips in your home airport, you're denying both of those things from happening even though it helps you personally.