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What's the deal with reserve at Mesa? I have friends that talk about completing a reserve assignment and sitting ready reserve afterwards until they hit the end of their FDP limit? At the airline I work, if you complete an assignment and the company has nothing to add to your schedule within 15 minutes of block in, you are released from reserve duty.
No you aren't on ready reserve when you finish a reserve trip. You have FDP showing until the end of your rsv shift to help the trackers code your times properly for 117 stuff and for them to see who is where and available. But unless they contact you within 15 mins of blocking in, it's back to a 1.5 hour call out. In some instances when I was on reserve and commuting I would call and ask to get released to catch a flight home and they were usually cool with releasing me so long as they had decent coverage. It's good for now, until we go back to being undermanned.