Originally Posted by
Born2FlyAv8R
Well I may be a minority here - but I love my reserve schedule. I work a max of five reserve shifts - have all day off the last day of the reserve shift, have four full days off, and can easily commute in for my first day back on reserve. Get called in MAYBE once a week. Beats reserve life at the regional 100 percent. I truly don’t see myself doing anything else.
Yeah, I'd say A LOT depends on your seniority and whether or not you live in base.
Personally, I would say things here have changed dramatically for a subset of pilot in the past year and a half. Base reductions have pushed some of us to commuting. That commuting has led to perpetual reserve with a 5 or 6 day reserve block. This commuting takes us to sitting around in a city that we do not live in, waiting to be called for a day turn or a two day trip with a 3 hour callout. So there's a group of us that are pretty miserable once they made these radical changes to flying schedule from 3 and 4 day trips to 1, 2, and 3 day trips with on top of that seeing very little growth or movement within the company during that same time.
I would say FO's are going to be pretty happy with QOL since there's so much movement. Captains with lines are going to be consistently happy with things. Reserve here is total garbage for any commuter.