Originally Posted by Kooky (Post 862117)

Around a 100 total to bring on in Spring. SO....Minus total in Bank = number off street. Guess around 70 as mentioned on page 4 of this subject. Most likely into 727 SO due to recent posting of upgrades and those leaving the seat. How long in the Engineer seat is a huge guess but I doubt it will be the 4-5 years that the current engineers have endured. Ten R days is not common except for those who bid the South America 727 lines. Lately the ability to move R days is very flexible and 4-5 days is more common when on reserve. The ability to drop those R days is also available building up your make up bank that u can use to pick up trips in open time.

Originally Posted by FXDX (Post 862236)

Cloud: In a nutshell:

19 days of reserve in a 5 week bid month. 16 days off.

15 R days in a 28 day month, 13 days off.

RSV = 24 hour notice, very few of those lines usually, I think contractually it is 10% of the R lines.

RA is on call basically 0130 to 1330, 1.5 hour callout. Some bases are 3.0 callout (ANC?)

RB is on call 1330 to 0130, 1.5 hour callout in Memhis.

There is also RA+ and RB+ which shifts the on call window 6 hours, but that isn't used too often as far as I have seen.

Originally Posted by PurpleBoiler (Post 862278)

Don't you have to be phone available by midnight for the RA period? How does FDX get away with forcing you to be contactable outside your duty period?

Originally Posted by PurpleBoiler (Post 862278)

Don't you have to be phone available by midnight for the RA period? How does FDX get away with forcing you to be contactable outside your duty period?

Originally Posted by CloudSailor (Post 862354)

Do you happen to know the reserve rules in HKG? :)