Originally Posted by johnpeace

Oftentimes, they won't notice or catch it and there is no consequence if you don't call to be released. If some jerk over there wants to though, they can mark you unavailable while on reserve (even if they don't call you with an assignment) and have your pay docked by a day. That happened to a captain I flew with recently.

The ready reserve IS the assignment that you have to call to be released from. The manual says you must check with scheduling before leaving the airport after an assignment...it makes no distinction between it being a flight assignment and a ready reserve assignment.

I'm with you in thinking it absolutely idiotic that I would sit on RR at the airport ALL DAY LONG waiting to hear from them...and then after 8 hrs of that I have to call them to ask them if I can go yet.

Send an email to the JNC and tell them how much you think of that and how you want it to not be present in our next contract.