Originally Posted by
JohnDeSpacito
Could someone on reserve pick up trips in open time (hopefully not a redeye) and rack up hours so the company will call the guy with fewer hours for the month first? Does the LAX base even have much flying in open time that’s not gnarly redeyes?
On Long Call Reserve you could do this in theory. Have a flight scheduled so that your credit for the month is higher in the first few weeks, so that they call someone else first. Also on Long Call reserve, you might be better off preferential bidding a trip so that they assign you a non redeye if you see 1.
VDA/RSA/Premium trips, but other than that, if you pick up trips on open time as a rsv, you are flying for free. To be fair, not every trip in open time is a redeye. Its just that as a lineholder and being JR, you can bet that you will have them.
Open time is a mixed bag. Mostly filled with redeyes, but there is variety. If the spirit acquisition goes through, LAX will grow for JetBlue, but until that happens, its not fair for me to say that things will be great. JetBlue has wanted to open a vegas base recently though, so they ARE trying to increase their presence out west.