Originally Posted by Myboyblue
If the night flying gets to someone too much, can they solve the problem by bidding the noon to midnight reserve?
I'm guessing the noon to midnight reserve is mostly day flying, correct? reserve sucks but if night line flying is that bad then maybe day reserve isn't so bad.
We have an
A and
B reserve periods. These are periods of "On call availablity" i.e. sitting on the BEEPER and don't always dictate when you will actually fly..................Your chances of Day flying are certainly greater with B period but not guaranteed.
A you must be available Midnight to noon.
B you must be available from Noon to Midnight.
Being available means you must be able to show in 1 hour (MEM based) once notified, or must be able to Show in 3 hours ANC or LAX based.
Crew skeds has figured little tricks and other little ways around this. This is your intial availablity only.
Once called out you could have been a Day reserve (B) and be assigned a trip that is a Day Deadhead but has a week of night Hubturns. With 18 hours advance notice they can still assign you into a night (early AM launch) or vice versa if you on on the A period and generally nobody from A usually complains about flying days.