Originally Posted by
Bluedriver
Reserve is not simply "what you make of it". You forgot to mention that you don't know what your reserve period is until noon the day prior, and you can very well be assigned a 5am on call period on your 1st day of a reserve sequence so you have to commute in the day prior, losing one of your few precious days off.
It has happened to me, many times.
Overall, not a great system at all.
Well commuting on reserve is never going to be a pleasurable experience. I guess I was beaten down too much at my last airline to think JetBlue's reserve system isn't terrible. I think United has min 10am start on day 1 on reserve and a 3 hour callout. That would be a nice improvement.