envoy's current reserve time is already at 18 months. It went from 4 years to 18 month in less than a 12 month time period. Care to guess what it will in another 12 months? Reserve and Upgrade times are fluid and current times are rarely a good indicator of future, whether good or bad. Do you pull last week's METARs and TAFs when planning a flight today?

When I was hired in 2004, there was only a few more classes before they stopped hiring for about 6 months and even then, it was slow hiring. Guys that were hired just a month or two before me spent just a month on reserve and I spent two years. Timing is everything and not everything situation can be anticipated.

Given the fact that we are seeing a large number of block hours being returned to envoy (25% increase in flying by the end of the first quarter) and based on new hire classes for the last few months, we will not have a grossly overstaffed reserve group that we have today and we will have many leaving off the top and coming in on the bottom keeping things moving. Reserve Time for a new hire today likely be around 9 to 12 months.

Reserve at envoy is one of the best systems at the regional level. Proffering and a highly regulated assignment process makes reserve a little more tolerable. Its still a regional but you have more control than most. Because of this, we have many senior CAs and FOs that bid reserve due to the QOL that they can attain.