I'm not sure you are going to like trading the west coast/mountains for the east coast but If you want to move to EWR, go nuts. At least you will be kind of used to the cost of living (depending on where you lived out west). But if I had to guess, I would imagine the time spent on reserve will increase in EWR before it decreases. The EWR lines have been decreasing slowly for a long time and Colgan is coming in '08 with their Q400s to do CAL flying. Most new hires are going out west which means that fewer people are going to EWR and then bidding out. If the trend continues then EWR could become like CLE (very senior, little movement, reserve time measured in YEARS, crappy lines). Do new hires still go to CLE? Yes, they just never get off reserve and most just bid out when they can. Could EWR end up that way? Who knows. If you live in base, reserve isn't too terrible at XJT. You don't get abused near as bad as some other places and the reserve rules are fairly decent (12 hour call outs, aggressive trip pickup, 11-12 days off guaranteed, immovable days off, etc).