Originally Posted by
flylow
You cannot bid for open time while on a reserve schedule. What you get rarely ever appears on open time. During the last year, my low month has been 4hrs, high 50hrs. 1.5hr callout, or you can get ready reserve which for AM is 525am to 125pm - you must be at the airport. Sometimes you get a RR several times a month, sometimes never.
Actually technically you can reduce yourself to 10 days off from 11. So if there was a reserve day or a day trip in open time you could grab that...but that is rare.