Originally Posted by
deltajuliet
Does anyone know how these arbitrary reserve buffers are established? It's set at 23 for the last several days of November in Dulles. Seems like extreme overkill, and I've been told they don't release anyone on their last day unless they're at least two net reserves over it. My last day on happens to be Thanksgiving, and I'd love to have something intelligent or persuasive to respond to Crew Tracking with after they blindly tell me I need to sit the last three hours of "FDP" in Dulles after flying/deadheading all day.
Any ideas or tricks that've worked for other people?
Uhhhhh...if you're like way down the call list and it's your last day, and it's T-Day, I would just get my free Moe's and get the heck out of there.
All the flights are gone from IAD by 5PM on T-Day, and there are probably only like 5 flights total. If there's a day to sneak out early, that's it.
If you're AM, they should release you very early on T-Day with that many people on duty. If you're PM, they should release you by 5PM.
It would be very easy for them to algorithmically determine reserve numbers based on historical absences, holidays/weekends, and forecast block time, but you know--just cuz it's easy/cheap/simple to do something doesn't mean Mesa's gonna do it.