Originally Posted by
RickRoss
Is this common practice?
*new hires and prospective pilots
Choose a base where you can hold a line as soon as possible even if it requires a commute. Reserve f’ing sucks!
Yes reserve here is hell on earth, and as we get tighter on pilots it's only going to get worse. You may only sit a few months on reserve as an FO but you will sits years as a new Captain. I flew with an FO recently that had upgraded and sat a year of reserve only to go back as an FO the first chance he got.
Originally Posted by
Utah
As a reserve they can do anything they want with you, including taking stuff off your schedule that they've assigned you, or modifying it, extending the trip, etc..
As a reserve you have virtually zero say in what they can do to you, really they will do the unthinkable, they don't care one bit. Today as an example, in my domicile, they have 19 less reserves than they should. There is not one chance anybody in the domicile could get a day off if they requested one, and it's unlikely next month too.