Originally Posted by
SkyKing466
If you want nights at home you definitely don't want DPJ or companies like that... Not even sure why that would be on your radar but whatever. If you've scheduled for one regional they are pretty much all the same so you already know what you're up against.
Seriously, look into 91 jobs in a city you or your spouse have family if you want home time. That way you can be stay at home dad until there's a trip. With everyone going to the airlines there are decent gigs out there that fly 200-400 hours per year and have a lot of home time. You're on call every day but will probably only go to work a couple times a month. There's a corporate jobs fb page that's good or network where you wanna live. Look up people you trained with, etc. that are in corporate now and see what's out there, you might find something that works for you!
Thanks man. I have the experience from my regional as a scheduler. They had a "first out/last out" reserve protocol, and they also contractually had to use ready reserves as little as possible. They also had to get the ready reserves back to base ASAP. We were very streaky in reserve usage. We would have a month or two where a reserve would fly maybe once, and we'd have a month or two where the reserves would fly every day, and then some. I'm sure utilization at other regionals is/was similar, so I guess I was looking more for contractual language at the various regionals regarding reserve/ready usage. I'm definitely going to look into the 91 gig. Maybe I can get a deal making enough money (down the road) to just buy tickets and/or rack up airline miles. I don't care what I fly. I'll fly oil filters in a Cessna 152 for all I care. I'm just looking for quality of life, time at home, enough money to support the (future) family, and either travel benefits or the ability to buy tickets. I'll definitely start researching the part 91 operators and see what's out there. Thanks for the suggestion, man!