Originally Posted by
SrfNFly227
It has been a long time since I have been on reserve, but I will give this a shot. Anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Reserves get 10 days off.
No computer list. You can ask to be first call or last call, but we have no way to tell whether or not they went in order.
No long call reserve.
Call out time is 90 minutes for home reserve.
Ready reserve, up to 9 hours a day, call out is to be at the gate pretty much as soon as possible. Ready reserve pays 3.75 hours per day and you do not get per diem.
When you are done with your last assignment on your last day, they have 3 options for you. Release you (good luck with that), reassign you, or hold you at the airport for an hour of reserve. At the end of the hour they have to release you or assign you a trip that leaves within 3 hours of your original in time.
Basically, reserves here are treated horribly. The TA we voted down in September was actually worse for reserves than current book. Apparently the next TA won't be much better, if at all. Sounds like there is a good chance reserve will STILL be 10 days off, and now they will be able to hold you at the airport for 3 hours (big improvement from the up to 12 hours of reserve from the TA).
My god.............what a sweatshop.
Eagle's reserve rules leave this in the dust, but it goes to show that not all regionals are the same. More then likely, in a few years Eagle's will probabaly look like this...........in fact, most regionals will look like this if they want to keep their flying.
The race to the bottom (or top, if you're in management) has begun.