Originally Posted by
the apprentice
Conditional reserve is easy when management cancels your flight which is every single day you show up to work they make you sit airport reserve until your original release time and thats a lo of hours of sitting around at the airport doing absolutely nothing.
Another possible scenario is that they will continue to deadhead you endlessly. I have shown up to work for a 4 day trip worth 21 hours of actual flying. At the end of those 4 days I have deadheaded for 8 hours and flown 2 hours.
Can you say management is clueless and extremely incompetent?
Thanks for the insight. Are you a CA, or FO? Commuter? Any particular reason this is happening? For example, are they positioning you for flights that keep getting cancelled? Do they have knowledge that your flights are being cancelled well before you head to the airport, and telling you too late? Is it happening to lots of pilots? And what do you do sitting for hours and not flying - cribbage, APC, and updating jepp charts? Speaking of which, when are iPad EFB's coming?