Originally Posted by sailingfun

I am not sure what you define as a goofy reserve schedule. If you are on the 717 in NYC for JAN you can move virtually any day you want. You can also personal drop any days you don't want to be on call. If being in a heavily overmanned category on reserve is this much trouble for you then your not going to be happy in this job.

Originally Posted by LeineLodge

Agreed. Take a look at the Scheduling Reference Handbook for ways to move X-days, Personal Drop (PD) if you want, etc.

In a category that is overstaffed (which allows lots of creative schedule manipulation) you have no one to blame but yourself if you don't move things around to make it more tolerable.

None of that changes the fact that commuting to reserve sucks. Your silver lining is that it will be very short lived. A month or three is a blip in the grand scheme of things. Welcome to the airlines