Originally Posted by SFA320

Usually straight open time trips. Adding trips on your reserve day off at F9, is a nice benefit but when you start with only 12 days off it doesn’t leave a lot of wiggle room. I’m a junior line holder, so the flying I’m doing is red eye type flying. I live in base and I’ve done plenty of reserve. I would still never add flying on a hard day off. I value my time differently. Reserve is a crap shoot, one week they might not use you. The next they use you for five days straight. I occasionally broke guarantee on reserve, but couldn’t imagine doing some useless red eye trip after being jerked around for five days. To each his own I guess.