Originally Posted by
Banzai
Questions:
1)How does one get audited?
2)How does one possibly work on Reserve? No, I don't want to do this, but given staffing at my level, I pretty much count on working for the airline while on Reserve. There are people who don't get called? What a crazy world!
I'm responsible with my Mil Leave, but I haven't decided 100% about putting it on the calendar in advance. Every time I have, I get screwed somehow, and I also end up working WAY more than I want in a month.
Sometimes waiting until the schedule drops also puts me in a jam though, either forced to drop too much, or too little while working too much.
For those who think this is the best "free pass" ever, it's not an easy thing. I don't want the company to make it worse as a matter of course.
It's pretty easy for flight ops to tell who is abusing mil leave. A couple of examples including scheduling mil leave to do a 4 hour paperwork drill to get the holiday off when the unit is not even working. Bidding your reserve blocks in 5 day groups and then putting a mil leave day in the middle in a category where the shortest trip is 3 days. Then GSing on all your days off.
I suspect this might trigger the audit.