Originally Posted by
libertyrisk
I despised reserve and I live an hour from my base. I felt like the companies b!tch. Nothing says "you're my b!tch" like being reassigned an out and back turn while flying the last leg of your pairing back to your base and your lineholder captain gets 50% reassignment pay while you get nothing. Or you're passing through a base at the end of your pairing expecting to deadhead home only to receive a message from skeds saying that you've been "out of base" reassigned another day of flying. Or the unlimited SCs and FSs that skeds builds... go to bed at the bottom of a silo with no SCs or FSs left only to be awakened by a skeds phone call at midnight telling you that you have a SC/FS.
First world problems. In base lineholder > in base reserve > commute lineholder > commute reserve
I can't speak to Global reserve life. It sounds like rainbows and unicorns.
Regarding likely length of time on reserve—how long is it taking for newhire FOs to get a line in CLE?
I haven’t started Indoc, but have a class date and will be moving to Ohio, so CLE 737 is clearly the best option due to living in base (as noted above, in base > commute). If I can’t bid CLE right out of Indoc (which is possible), then I’d bid the 737 to a different base then bid over at the earliest opportunity. That said, CLE seems to be significantly more senior than all the other domestic 737 bases, so sitting reserve for an extended length of time appears to be in my future.
Any insight into life as an junior, in-base 737 FO at CLE will be much appreciated!