Originally Posted by Ace66

Respectfully, it looks like you haven't flown reserve through the summer months. My reserve experience on the west coast was the exact opposite. Scheduled above the 95 hour buffer, had HDO's taken away, almost every trip had a red-eye/dayover, field standby's, short-calls on last day of reserve block, etc.

Our rules are really bad (worse than the regional I used to fly for) but they don't use them to their fullest extent until something bad happens or they just get over-scheduled. That leads a lot of people to believe that the rules aren't that bad because they either haven't flown during hectic times or they just got lucky and didn't get the full experience of our crappy rules.

Everyone has their unique perspectives, but a good measure of how the 15,000 pilots feel about our reserve rules is that we have unfilled Captain vacancies in almost every base.