Lakes:
-1 hour, 45 minutes for DEN, to show time/ check-in
-1 hour all other cities
-No long call
-10 days off, with 3 sets of 3 days off, and 3 inviolable days.
-14 hours of reserve per day, most often 0800-2200
-Average reserve pilot doesn't fly much on the FO side, these days. I've heard as low as 15 hours, and as high as 50 hours. Captain's side flies a lot more on reserve.
-Hot reserve is 8 hours. I always did 0800-1600 back when I was on FO reserve.
-Hot reserve normally happens a few days per month on a reserve schedule. I never did it more than once per week, and averaged maybe once or twice per month.
-No reserve built into lines, that I know of.
-75 hour guarantee
-Reserve calls not seniority-based. One scheduler told me it's basically alphabetical order.
-If you're a senior FO, and bid reserve, you probably won't get called much, as they need to consolidate the junior FOs (100 hours in 90 days), or they need to take their checkride again. This comes in handy for upgrade studying.
Last edited by 1900luxuryliner; 04-02-2009 at 08:00 AM.