Originally Posted by
Long Haul
One major gotcha: A TRV (traditional reserve) or an LCL (long call line) reserve on long call has an 18 hour min call out time for a trip, while a VEC pilot has 12 hours. This means that, if there is an open trip that shows at 0700 on Monday, for example, the last moment crew scheduling can assign anyone on long call to this trip is 1300 on Sunday; unless they have someone with a VEC line, in which case they have until 1900. There are trips that become open every day between 1300 and 1900, and Crew Scheduling is required in that case to assign it to a VEC pilot, regardless of silo.
This is how I came to have been working five of the last six days 😞
I just got burned by this as well on VEC. It is a little bit of a nice tradeoff that LCL and TRV are first on the list during the assignment window to get the crappy 3 and 4 day redeye trips that fester in open time all month