Originally Posted by bruhaha

Lineholders also get a minimum of 11 days off. Most lines have anywhere from 12 (a lot) to 18 (very few) days off.

I am another unfortunate DFW based CRJ pilot - I was really hoping to get the Saab when I first started working here but ended up getting assigned the CRJ on day one - there was no other choice for DFW for my newhire class.

After a year of this DFW CRJ reserve thing, I've decided that it really isn't that bad on reserve - I think I'll still bid reserve when I can hold a line. With the official 11 days off - I really have ended up with about 16-18 days "off" with the extra 5-7 days "off" being they didn't call me out to fly on my reserve days. As a reserve CRJ pilot, I've averaged maybe 20 hours of flying a month, and I'm quite happy flying that little. And if I do have to go fly - I try to get the late show (5-6pm) one leg out to an overnight, one leg back to DFW by 10am to get released - which has happened quite frequently - it knocks out two reserve days for maybe 17 hours of being away from base. But I live in domicile so that really makes a big difference. As a commuter, the days they don't call you're stuck in Dallas and not Midland - you're still away from home.

The DFW reserve EMJ pilots really are working on all of their reserve days and flying 80-90+ hours a month.

The tack I was try to do when I got hired here at Eagle was Saab - stay on Saab as long as I could for the schedule/QOL until I could hold a line on the jet, transition for the pay and schedule. It didn't work out that way for me, but the way it worked out has been okay (again because I live in base) If I was a commuter - the way it worked out would really blow.