Originally Posted by iaflyer;[url=tel:3347144
3347144[/url]]Not necessarily, reserve here is a pretty good gig. I've been on reserve most of my time at Delta, half by choice - I'm a Captain and I have much more schedule flexibility on reserve. I also live in base.
And, if you’re able to respond quickly, even being junior, and GS are flying (category dependent), flying GS on reserve Xdays means more money and less work than flying a regular line.
Yes, that‘s a “compound-if,” but when it works you’ll seen senior pilots on reserve and junior ones forced into lines. YMMV