Originally Posted by
MinRest
The problem is, redeyes will always go junior, ALWAYS. Crappy trips will always go junior. Junior bases will always exist. The idea that junior things exist just because the company hates junior pilots, or that senior pilots hate junior pilots, is insane. It's utter insanity.
QOL is both subjective and objective. Nobody is saying three-day Hawaii’s with no redeyes for every guy. I’m comfortably north of the horror scene of our reserve system here, but I’ll be damned if I ever put my family through that again. As others have said here, our reserves need more time off with how hard they’re worked. 85 hours of reserve is more like 125 hours as a line-holder, and I think we can all agree that is just too much. I don’t want to fly with an FO stuck on perma-reserve whose spouse is ready to walk because they’re never home, even though they live in-base. Is that too much to ask?