Originally Posted by
UASCOMPILOT
Can someone please explains how our 2.5 hour to show on reserve works for LGA and EWR! I live in NJ and can make EWR in an 1:40 but realistically its 3 hours for LGA. So how do you sit reserve for EWR/LGA at the sometime it seems impossible! You would have to be sitting on the GWB to make it with the time allotted! Somebody must have figured this out!
Don't stress about LGA at all. You live within 2.5 hours of EWR under normal traffic, last minute assignments are pretty rare, and if the stars align to jam you up you just articulate your situation to a very understanding chief pilots office. I think you will be off reserve relatively quickly if hired in this next push but I would still bid 737 for less LGA(better/more productive) trips vs the bus. Congrats on the offers! If the other offer involves a JFK base I would weigh that drive, parking shuttle time, and sheer stupidity of the belt parkway against a mindless drive up the turnpike. EWR is 10 min parking lot to security and JFK was 30 min from lefferts. Over a career that time driving, tolls, waiting for a shuttle bus... will add up.