Originally Posted by
pilotnbr1
My understanding for a staging priority Jumpseat is that if you are commuting to a reserve assignment (with no trip assigned), you are not protected if your Jumpseat plan goes awry. Once a trip is assigned to that first reserve period you are then protected.
Time on reserve varies from seat to base to airplane of course...but you will do some.
I personally haven't used "staging" for 20 years. It's a lower priority and can be bumped by anyone in the company using a business status.
If you are talking about jumpseating directly into a reserve assignment, then, no you are not protected. But, you aren't really legal to do that anyway, due to the 11:30 duty limitations for jumpseat protection. (The time from your jumpseat showtime until 30 minutes after your trip's final land time cannot exceed 11:30, in order to be protected if a company jumpseat fails to get you to your domicile). If you are assigned a multi-leg or international leg trip, you will almost certainly exceed that 11:30 time limit.
If you have an AM reserve assignment that commences at 0130 local time, you would need to jumpseat in on the previous day's AM inbound (0500-0900 local launch, with a 1000-1300 land time), to be legal if using a Fedex jumpseat.
Short answer - don't jumpseat using a Fedex jumpseat directly into a reserve assignment.