Originally Posted by
Silver02ex
It’s hard to say how long you’ll be on reserve for. Now that hiring has picked up and we are going to PBS. It’s even harder to guess. You bid for long or short call. You can look at the reserve availability a few days ahead of time, and what’s in open time to see if you’ll fly or not. I can only speak for Vegas. I’ve always had my trips added to my reserve assessment about 24-36 hrs. ahead of time.
This is not the case for all bases. DTW has an additional dynamic with the presence of the maintenance hangar there. They assign reserves to reposition spare airplanes out of DTW to rescue flights at other stations. I've been called at 3am three times in one week.