Originally Posted by
757Driver
You will also be on reserve for the rest of your natural life. Those of you who work here already know that CAL has the absolutely WORST reserve system of all the majors and is quite possibly the most understaffed airline as well.
Yes, you may spend a while as reserve 737 CA in EWR flying DCA turns out of terminal A, but $140/hour (junior CA) is better than $70/hour (FO of same seniority)! When PBS is finally working, that will eliminate almost all reserve flying. No open time, just sick calls. There will be very few reserves, but many more "lineholders". I live within 1.5 hours of EWR, so I'm tempted to upgrade sooner rather than later. I got to pay the bills.
