Originally Posted by
Ed Force One
In the Res example given a few pages back: If they are calling you at 8:00 asking you to be there at 10:00, then that must mean the push is scheduled at 10:45. Reserve language gives the pilot 3 hours, meaning an 11:00 push. My answer would be "I cannot make it until 10:15." If they want to push the departure back to 11:00 to accommodate me, that's perfectly acceptable and legal.
Don't confuse Check in time with Report time. Reserve under 25.k.2.c speaks nothing of being there 45 prior for a "check in time," as defined in the CBA. It talks about a report time, and that is "a pilot must arrive at the aircraft ready to depart within three hours of the time he was notified of the trip assignment."
We have 3 hours...even if this means you get to the plane at 2:45, everything is set up, brief and push 15 minutes later. Maybe not the safest, but it meets the definition.
Lets not make the contract more restrictive for pilots by saying a reserve report time is 45 minutes prior to push, because it isnt.