Originally Posted by
Shenzi105
NJA is reserve? You know when you're working, you know when you're not working. You have your schedule set months in advance if you're on the 7/7 or the previous month, like a line holder, if you're on a Crew Choice. Nothing like reserve at all.
Yes, but actually it is a bit worse at NJA. You know your block of days you work, you just have no idea if you will work or where you will go, but you know you will be gone from home. This is all predicated on somebody sitting reserve in base, if you commute to reserve that is always worse 100% of the time. At an airline, you know what blocks you will work because you bid for it, you can bid long call or short call, you can bid call me last so you don't get called unless everyone else gets called. Airline reserve goes senior during the holidays because you can get Christmas or Thanksgiving off. At NJA, you know what days you will work, you will 99% for sure be gone that entire time, you have no idea where you will go, and your schedule changes 20 times a day. It is literally reserve but with less control.