Originally Posted by
echelon
It's not "having to work" that people are upset about, you dunce, it's having to commute in the night before and then being used until the middle of the night on the last day. It's only getting 12 days off (if the hours thing doesn't apply - congrats if that's the case for you, everyone else I've talked to has been hosed by that). It's not being able to self-assign without exact day match. It's the 14hr RAP that you can't swap. ETC ETC ETC. Ask yourself - are you willing to take the first upgrade your seniority can hold and live under these rules for 10 years? Or would you rather have rules that are decent enough that reserve goes senior? (DAL, JBU, others)
EVERY person that commutes to reserve at AS that I've talked to in real life HATES their life. That is ass-backwards compared to other majors. Get your head out of the sand or you're part of the problem.
And guess what - people literally have left for regionals. And also downgraded themselves because reserve sucks so much.
Guess what...
I know him personally (great guy actually). He commutes 1500 miles one way, and has since being hired. So, while every person
you've supposedly talked to hates their life, at least one who you haven't talked to DOESN'T. Yes, he's had bad days and has been ****ed off with the best of them, but he DOESN'T hate his job, even with the 1500 mile commute.
Also, anybody who would jump ship from your airline for a Regional is someone who will either become a Regional Lifer or quit the vocation altogether. Those folks are the definition of jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.