Originally Posted by bamike

They don't need to, they have tons of guys in training with 121 time waiting on sims now. Try picking up a reserve day from open time, it gets denied even at straight pay. Piedmont is overstaffed right now on the FO side, and soon will be overstaffed on the captain side. They are paying these wages because the overtime savings make it almost cost neutral to AA. There isn't any super critical and the critical OT is fake. If you try to pick it up it'll get denied because they have enough reserve coverage.

The way open time works at this company is like 1995, you have to submit a form that gets looked at after 3pm the following day. If they decide they don't need the open time anymore, they just deny your request and that's it. No recourse contractually. Other companies you can pick it up electronically. Supposedly they are working on modernizing it through FLICA later this year.

TLDR, only come here now if you want to sit reserve and make min guarantee. The opportunity to make extra is only for check airman and instructors. It might change later but that's how it is right now. The reserve is mostly Short Call Reserve (2 hour call out) and up to 8 days a month airport standby (max 8 hours a day). There is now a requirement for 15% of reserve lines to be Long Call (12 hour callout) but the contract says they can convert all your long call days to short call. So it's trash unless you live in base.