Originally Posted by
LOBO
Can a pilot in an international category that has domestic flying for the month be put on domestic short call i.e. 12 hours instead of 24 hours?
In NYC or ATL if you have one day of reserve either do to the end of the month or MLOA can you be assigned a short call of only 12 hours instead of 24 hours?
The great thing about our reserve (in the scheduler's eyes) is that international pilots on the ER can sit domestic reserve the first 12 hours of a 24 hour call window, then international reserve the last 12 hours. It's a two for one deal!
I have seen scheduling assign only 12 hours of short call to a ER reserve, usually because it's the pilot's last day on call before some off days, and scheduling is really short of pilots: ie, SC from 1200 to 2359.
However, they don't do that as a normal practice because they can only use you for anything other than a very short trip without rolling you into your days off. That's pretty far down the call ladder and there are usually enough people with GS in to cover the flying.