The contract technically allows for airport reserve, but it also requires them to agree on a suitable lounge facility for the RR to use. I would hope that our MEC wouldn't agree to our current crewrooms for airport standby...

In the event that they did implement airport reserve, the contract limits us to an 8-hour stretch.

I think the real reason we don't ever use it is because we don't have enough staffing in each base to assign people to sit in the airport. On any given day, we typically only have 1-4 reserves available in each base to begin with.