Originally Posted by Extenda

At delta on reserve our pickup is pretty good. If you fly on your days off you get those days off back on your next on days but also get straight pay for the picked up flying. I’d fly on all my on days anyways so I try to work on my off days for extra pay since it’s the same amount of work. This requires a lot of life flexibility though. Theoretic example, lets say the reserve guarantee is 78, and you have the first 15 days of the month off, if you flew all 15 days (impossible cause of regs I know) you’d get that pay you flew, plus the 78 reserve guarantee on top of it for like 160 hours, to only fly as much as you would anyways if you flew on your on call days. You essentially swap your on days to your off days.

For lineholders it’s double pay so you can make a lot but you’re hustling.