seafeye

Lazy? I try swap my 5 day trip every morning every afternoon. Every evening.
I own that trip. Sick is the only flexibility. Then I lose 25 hours sick time.
Two of those a year and your almost out.

TankerDriver

On call 17 days a month, 4-5 days at a time. I don't mind "sitting next to the phone" when they only use me <50% of the time. When you live less than an hour a way, short call is not a bad gig. If you are a commuter and get stuck with PHL 190, it sucks, but if you are local, it's arguably the best deal in the system for a newhire especially if get withheld on it for 1-2 years. Some of us picked the 190 as newhires for a reason.

As what was said before, it is hard to make up time on the 190. Short legs. So the reserves don't get abused too much. The little Bus is a different story and why I am in no rush to move on. As a local living in base, I see no reason to bid a line on the 190. Four 4-day trips doing 4-5 legs a day between BOS-DCA-LGA-RDU will be your life for 16 days a month to end up with 85 hrs when you can work 5-8 days a month for 76. A lot of the short calls end up being day turns also. Again, short call is a different life in the AB. Not sure how long it takes to hold LC on the 190.

nAAtive

Unless the green book has changed you should be on call 18 days a month.

TankerDriver

So no, it obviously isn't 20-25 hard days off, but at the end of the day, if they didn't call me and I go about most of my business as usual, it "feels" like a day off. I haven't had being on short call negatively effect my lifestyle most of the time other than not being able to drink a beer at social events and I don't make it a habit of trying to confine myself to a certain radius.

TankerDriver

Oops yes, you are correct.

PRS Guitars

You must be very jr, though you’ve been on here a while so I didn’t think so. How many 5 days are there? Are you bidding specific pairings and ending up in LN? Or generics and getting 5 days somehow. There is probably a way to avoid these through your PBS bid, unless you are 85% or higher.

seafeye

We are, or maybe you are our worst enemy.

Reserve is NOT a day off.
You are required to answer your phone. Go to the airport and go on a trip for 1-5 days.
You cannot drink a beer.
You have to be fit for duty if called.
Etc....

Yes you may be able to run errands and do things. But it is not a day off. Please do not call it that.

Dobbs18

You have to be willing to do what I call "blowing up my schedule", meaning I will trade a 5 day to something else, anything else that isn't a 5 day, even if if it's over days that I "need off" just to get rid of the 5 days. Even redeyes because if it's not a 5 day and then I've just cleared a day off my calendar! I have been awarded 5 day trips in Sept Oct and Nov and flew zero of them with no sick calls. I wish I was bidding against CAs because most I fly with really have no clue how to work it, the FOs in CLT for the most part know the game and make it a little harder with all the competition...but in CLT there are SOOOOOO many trips it at least makes it a little easier I guess....ok I've already said too much

AwkwardTurtle

So for the new guy, you get 12-13 days off.

AAfng

Loose lips sink ships