My experience has been....
I'm EWR based, been on reserve since IOE (August, and my choice at this point). The 4 times I sat out of base reserve it was because they only had one leg for me to fly. Say an IND FO gets sick before his/her last leg of a pairing from EWR to IND. The put me on that flight, have me sit out of base reserve for the next day in IND and then fly me home that evening.
The one and only time they asked me to fly on out of base reserve was to work a flight home earlier than my scheduled dead head. Just got off work earlier.
Originally Posted by
IDrive175
This is what I was really getting at... so if one base is a little short on reserves, they’ll send people from other bases? For how long, a month at a time? Trip by trip?