Originally Posted by
FlameNSky
Every new, junior pilot at any airline is going to be subjected to the least desirable schedules. Name me on regional carrier who would not require their junior pilots to be on an early call. Its part of the business. I used to think envoy had some pretty bad schedules until I started looking at the sequences of the other regionals. I was floored about how many uncommutable lines most regionals have. We could be better but we are far from the worst (and improving).
With how long reserve is at envoy, it isn't "new, junior" pilots that are the ones only subject to preassigned early RAPs. It's the 40% of all pilots that make up the reserve list who are default assigned 04:00 RAP after days off.