Originally Posted by
flycrj200
I think we burn through reserve so quickly because we have a lot of people on ready reserve. If you assign every available pilot a ready reserve on a particular day and the y are not used within the ready reserve window, they become useless. I’m not sure who decides on assigning ready reserve, but what they are essentially doing is changing the availability of a pilot from 14 hours to 6. You are cutting availability of reserve crews more than 50%. But what do I know? I’m just a furloughed pilot.
That reserve pilot is still good for 14 hours, it just depends when his or her duty day has started. If you are pre-notified, then they are just forced to get your day going within that 6 hours, but once they've got you, then you are good. I'm sure they've looked at the historic percentage of reserve callouts and see that most are called out within the 1st 6 hours anyway.