Originally Posted by
CRJCapitan
Thank you both for your responses and I welcome other perspectives as well.
I don't mind working 85-90 hour lines (at least at this point in my life), but I highly value having my days off remaining as days off. Telling the family down the line that I got a three-day trip with one reserve day remaining or that I'm being extended an additional day or two while on the road would be crushing.
You get 6 hard days off a month on widebody reserve. Every other day you’re at the whim of scheduling. On basic reserve expect 2 FSB sits or short-call conversions on every reserve period in addition to assigned flying. You’ll regularly get calls after midnight your last day off so they can convert you FSB or short call to bring you into base the first day on reserve and then not use you but keep you so late you can’t commute home.