First year 756 FO here on Global Reserve and a commuter (3 to 4 hour drive with family in base). Global Reserve has been manageable for me far this year. I’ve only been rolled once. With some knowledge of the contract and 117. I’ve managed to figure out how to make my days unrollable for majority of the year since I’ve been rolled once in January. I’ve learned reserve game and scheduling’s habit patterns to the point where I was able to go from February to May not flying once. I’ve learned which SC shifts to APU in order to turn myself into a pumpkin for the last day and a half.

The biggest issues I am seeing is the manipulation of the grid with makes it damn near difficult to trade, drop trips for line holders and move days around for reserve. On top of that, our CBA gives crew schedule too much authority to move goal posts on what you can or can’t do such as having a single day off between reserve blocks to maximize time off in other blocks…. Unpredictability of LC to SC conversions or just straight up abuse where they will convert every reserve on a particular day to SC except those who are pumpkins. Of course, your off days being rollable without big compensation is BS.

A lot of this is manageable if one lives in base. Or have an easy commute with a comfortable crash pad.