Originally Posted by MovinFreight

Home basing is nice. The bids have been all over the place for the last few months. The “typical” footprint has been 16 on/12 off. Travel to work and home is included in those 16 days on. The most recent bid had plenty of lines with 14+ off. Previous bids were in more of a week on/week off footprint, and there was still a tiny bit of that in this most recent bid. What the next bid will look like is anyone’s guess.

Reserve can be a lot of things here. You could sit at home on reserve and not fly at all, you could sit in a hotel on reserve and not fly at all, you could end up flying all 16 days of your reserve availability, or any combination of the above. Regardless, you’re home based so the company is buying airline tickets and hotel rooms for any reserve assignment away from home. It typically doesn’t take long at all for new hires to hold a flying line.