Originally Posted by
Mach Indicator
Typically you bid for a start time for the entire month. So let's say you get 6AM. You go on call at 6AM and would have to be at the airport within 2 hours if you were to get called. Since you aren't guaranteed to catch a flight into your domicile during that 2 hours you have to fly in the night before. So now you're sitting in a crash pad or hotel waiting to get called. You're frequently on call for 4 to 6 days in a row. You may not get called. Now you're away from home and paying for a crash pad or hotel.
Would it be accurate to conclude the following?:
-Commuting on reserve is hell.
-Yet, being a reserve while living at base city is borderline heavenly. You can go about normal life until you get called with the only restriction being that you need to be sober.
Hypothetically: If I live near DEN, and got hired as a FO at Skywest (or any other legitimate regional with a base in DEN), how long do you think it would take me to build up enough seniority to get based in DEN? In other words, how long do you think I would need to tolerate a hellish commuting situation before I got based in DEN?