Originally Posted by
hyperone
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.
Coorection - it's
13:30, not 11:30 per CBA Ch. 26.J.2.a., and there must be at least 1:30 between the scheduled block-in of the jumpseat, and your show time in order to have the jumpseat protection. Sorry, should have looked it up and verified it before posting.