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Old 04-17-2018, 06:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Spicy McHaggis View Post
Staffing levels (and therefore reserve utilization) will ebb and flow in any base, but some of my friends on reserve in the EWR777FO base don’t even know where their uniforms are. Not flying very much at all. Some strategic use of short calls and they rarely ever fly.
Right now fleet is over staffed... reserve, if living in base, will definitely have you flying less per month than as a line holder IMO... but you won’t have any real control of days off other than the 6 HDOs. I’m in DCA and worked 70 days each last two years.... buds in EWR who work SCs had very similar. I don’t chase flying and happy with min line guarantee so this year I’ve been bidding a line with 18 days off so not a slave looking at CCS and open time for SC pickups... good to ha e that choice. But agree with post above... don’t bid on a plane based on today... things change rapidly here.
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