Originally Posted by
baseball
The biggest problem with reserve is you just can't plan on anything. You have no ability to be proactive with your family. Your days off aren't even your days off. The six day block of HDO's is all you can count on.
That's if you're a global reserve. Domestic reserve is better. You have only one FDO. The rest are HDOs. And let me know if I'm wrong but aren't there limits to what scheduling can do with global reserves? They can't roll your FDOs to assign you short call, field standby, or a domestic pairing. Is that right? They have to assign you a global pairing i.e. Lima and south, Shannon and east and of course any pacific. HI is excluded. That being said, and if it's not entirely true, aren't the global fleets better staffed than the 320 & 737. Narrow bodies are always short. Finding it hard to believe that the 756, 777, and 787 are as short staffed as the NBs. I dunno. Someone tell me I'm wrong and insult me. Oh and call me "son". I like that.
