Originally Posted by
saganist
Sorry if I'm being slow to understand, but are you saying people often have all LC days used for something else (SC, FSB, or flight), or are you saying people often have all LC days remain as unused LC?
(I swear, I'm smart in other ways, but I'm sometimes very dense on bidding/seniority/etc for some reason!)
you start with 18x LC… during a LC they can assign you a trip (14 hours notice), SC (10 or 12 hours notice), or FSB (12 hours notice I think). Depends on the fleet, seat, and base how often you get trips and SC/FSBs. I’ll give you a example using my schedule as a reserve Captain on global for Jan-Mar: I was away on trips 6 days a month on average… and sat SC 5 days out of the remaining 12 reserve days (out of 18). So on average I flew 6 days, SC 5 days, and sat LC reserve 7 days… and played golf 6 days per month (wx stopped me from playing 3 extra days).