Originally Posted by
Bhounddog
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?
For seven months right now at Skywest. Well, more like four or so after you finish IOE. Four months of commuting to reserve still takes a toll on one though.
I'll add, if you're on the fence seniority is everything. The sooner you jump in, the quicker you are home based.