Originally Posted by
FDXLAG
Exactly the point. If you are pulling AM reserve you might prepare one way. If you are doing an AM stby you might prepare another way. When you are doing both it is easier to prepare with more notice of the stby vice less. Seems obvious (and safer) to most of us.
My point is...if you assume you are going to be used (assigned a trip or airport standby) during your upcoming reserve period (duty) and you prepare for that, it doesn't matter what kind of notification the company gives you. You will be rested and prepared because you have taken the responsibility as your own. You don't have to "hope" the company does something nice. They are nice to me once a year when they buy my X-mas dinner in Hong Kong or Shanghai.