Originally Posted by
avi8orco
it does, SQ are the Europe trained crews.
Put it this way… as a new hire doing that, obviously on reserve, the company also considers you a trained 320 pilot. Therefore after say after all the Europe flights leave, there’s this wonderful SDQ redeye turn in open time and you’re still legal for it….yeah. Basically as an SQ during your reserve availability, you’re on the hook not only for the SQ flying, but anything else in there they can dump on you as well and they are usually redeyes.
Not completely correct. There is an internal agreement that no SQ reserves will be used for domestic flying unless they’re only available for 2 or less days, in other words unable to cover a European trip. The trick is to put VDA at the end of your reserve block so you look available for a trip, and you may not get used.
This allegedly came about when they had to cancel a LHR leg because of no crews because they burned an SQ reserve on a domestic trip. That particular leg had Robins mother on board.
Of course, your mileage may vary…