Originally Posted by Larry in TN

The airline needs a way to recrew flights on short notice when they get a late sick call, a pilot times out, or a crew misconnects. How do we want them to do that?



One way is with field standby.



Without FSB, there will be a lot more line holder reassignments, one of the things that APA has been complaining about at AAL.



What other options are there that I haven't thought of? How do we want these re-crews to be handled?



I think a big deterrent to bidding a seat where you'll be on reserve is the 12/13 days off per month. That's not enough. I'm not willing to do that. Would it work to have 15/16 days off with reserve pilots able to pickup additional reserve days, for additional pay, down to 12 days, or even 10 days, off? I don't know. I'd look at reserve differently with a system like that.