Originally Posted by
FlyGuy2021
If on reserve, I would say more than twice the time away, from my experience.
Living in base and sitting reserve is great - gone for 8-9 days per month and getting min guarantee. Sitting reserve out of base is terrible, and you are away from your family about twice the number of nights.
Even being a line holder out of base isn't great because a large number of trips are not commutable on both ends. A 3 day trip turns into 4 nights away from home, and sometimes 5. If you have two trips close together, it is often better to just sit in base for a day rather than commute back and forth with 1 day off. Commuting sucks right now, with most every flight being full and all of the commuters fighting for the jumpseats.
As a line holder in base about how many days off typically when junior? What is the trip mixes as far as the percent of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 day trips on the narrow body fleets?