Originally Posted by
DirkDiggler
A little summary of XJTs reserve rules:
Long call reserve - 12 hour call out. 10% of reserve lines must be long call.
Short call reserve - 2 hour call out. Bid line by availability start time. Currently lines with 3am,8am,12pm start times.
Airport standby - 4 hours pay 4 hours duty. Can be assigned to long call or short call. Cannot be assigned 2 consecutive days in a row, and more than 6 times in a bid month. Flight must be scheduled to depart in the standby window. If you get 6am-10am, flight scheduled for 1001am departure and see ya sucka, I’ve done that.
Will fly / no pref - pilot can elect will fly status to be assigned trips first in the bucket. Will flys get used more than no pref generally.
There is a bucket hierarchy system scheduling must follow and an aggressive pickup window for reserve to snag trips that fall over their reserve days the day before.
Reserve don’t own the trip (can be stolen by line holder) until 15 hours prior to departure for long calls and 9 hours for short calls.
Floating reserve line - you allow planning to pick your line, type of call out and start time and you get 14 days off instead of 11/12.
Just to add to this, a reserve pilot can pick up an airport standby trip, they can’t assign airport reserve on the last day in a block of reserve days, they can’t assign it outside your domicile, you are automatically released after four hours or 30 minutes after the last flight is airborne. In fact, after completing a reserve flying assignment, you are automatically released at block in if there isn’t an assignment on your schedule by then. And if a short-call reserve pilot has not been given an assignment by 1800 LT at his domicile on his last day of reserve before a day off, he will automatically be released to his days off. Automatic release means you don’t need to call crew scheduling. You simply check your schedule online at that time and if there is nothing there, you are released to domicile rest (11 hours) or days off, whichever applies.