This is a timely thread as I have a CJO and will start class in May. I'm 30 minutes drive from PHL, so the reserve period doesn't bother me since I can easily get there as long as I'm close to home on the on-call days. It sounds like a 4 day trip is 3 nights away from home for someone living in base. I've seen the route map and would be curious if any of legs during someon'es a 4 day trip would actually wind up back in base overnight, or would one expect to be overnighting in outstations? Or totally random? There would obviously be a mix of equipment overnighting in outstations for the early morning feeders into the hubs, along with morning flights from the hubs to the outstations.
Over on ATP, some pilots share their scheudle in a format like below. Obviously everyone's mileage varies, but it's an interesting view of a month in the life be it a lineholder or reseve.
1 - AAA-BBB-CCC (overnight)
2 - CCC-DDD-AAA
3 - AAA-EEE-FFF (overnight)
4 - FFF-GGG-AAA
5 - off
6- off
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