Originally Posted by
Herc130AV8R
This is great insightful info. Thanks. As a reserve living in domicile, can you pick up trips while you are on reserve? What I mean is, while you are in your window to be called for a trip, and there is something in the system that pops up as needing a pilot, can you grab that and then be on that trip and released from your reserve waiting? Sorry, I don't know all the JB/airline acronyms yet to probably explain this better. Thanks for any info.
Yes, sort of.
Prior to the DRO (see above), any reserve pilot can request to fly a trip that is in open time provided that he has the available days of rsv to fly it (ie, it can’t extend into your days off). These are awarded in seniority order, and LCR before SCR requests are given priority.
So, for example, if you see a two-day trip in open time on Monday that begins Wednesday morning, you have to be submit a RSV OpenTime pick up request no later than 0300 Tuesday morning in order for it to be processed by the DRO at 0800. At 0800 you would then be approved or denied your request.
Once PASSED the DRO, despite whatever pops up in open time, you are unable to do anything to get those trips except wait see (you have a fairly decent idea however based on reserve availability).
That all said, I’ve had fairly limited success doing this, to the tune of about three approvals vs 60 denials. All about seniority.