Ready reserve at Mesaba has 10/month limit with 3 in a row max. I was assigned aircraft type before class, but I have heard of people from my class that got the aircraft changed about a week prior to starting. Ready reserve here is 8 hours duty, but they can extend to 14 hours if you get flight assignment during initial 8 hours. We get 4 hours credit flying, and 1.55/hr per diem while on ready, so $12.40 if no flight, and wait that per diem is taxable so maybe $9.00 makes it to my check.

It could be worse, just paying the dues, waiting for some new people to get online and bump me up the list and off ready reserve.