Originally Posted by
MinFlyer
My reserve experience has been pretty great. Work half the days (17 on SCR) or less (four with one night gone in November) and when you work it is a mix of day and night flying. You are also the rescue squad for an East coast airline, so there is a lot of fly day one, then deadhead home day two. Sometimes you can self deadhead home that day, which give you the next day off free and clear. Being in driving rang for SCR improves my QOL greatly.
You're probably the first person I've ever heard saying your QoL on reserve experience has been great.

I live very close to LAX, so hopefully I'd have a similar experience.