Originally Posted by
Netty
Does Delta do short call reserve or ready reserve?
SC = yes
If by ready reserve you mean airport standby, no.
As Tripled states below, schedulers can essentially get a person to act like an airport standby during a long sit, but we are never required to answer the phone, so they can't make you report to a new flight in 30 minutes while you are having out on your 4:45 sit.
Originally Posted by
tripled
yes. They’re called reroutes.
In all seriousness, short call is a roughly 2-3 hour callout time and ‘ready reserve’ is not a clearly defined term to the group. It appears a ‘ready reserve’ capability is built into the line construction process via long sits at domiciles (2-5 hours) and also long layovers (30 hours). Some in the pilot group disagree with this application of ‘ready reserve’ so the future contract may have some changes to create such a capability.
Perhaps the group would agree to a 3rd type of monthly flying schedule where a pilot would simply bid a line with a firm start and/or ending time with a wide range of ‘operational flexibility’ as to where he actually flies/lays over during the trip window. With real-time schedule optimization now a possibility, this may be desirable to the company.