Cujo665

I was away from home only 10 myself..... you beat me.

saxman66

I was under the impression we were always gone for the whole 16-18 days no matter what. I guess that is not always the case? Home reserve sounds good to me. I know to not always expect that.


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hubbs

Is there an airport with decent service closer?

hubbs

Agreed. I flew over 60 in October and November.

JungleJetDriver

Home airport has a single delta carrier service with 5-6 flights to ATL.

hubbs

The bid lines are published with a combination of any known flying and sequences of reserve. On the 777 currently there is relatively little known flying, that may change if freighters show up. There is a fairly even split between lines that have all 18 days in a block and those that are broken into 2 or 3 blocks. The CBA requires 2 blocks of 4 days off, which can be satisfied by one block of 8.

There are two types of reserve: short call (2 hour call out, reducible to 1 hour if the company is providing a hotel and transportation, 15 minutes to respond); and long call (12 hour call out, 2 hours to respond).

If a sequence does not start with a known trip it will be made up of reserve days, typically the first day will be short call and the subsequent will be long call. You will be home until you are assigned something, that said you might have something assigned to you a couple days out starting on your first day of availability and you see none of the reserve days at home.

Realistically, the best way to think about it is days that you owe them and days off. If you get to spend a reserve day at home unused, then great, but plan on working 16-18 days a month.

hubbs

You could ask, but they like to have 2 carriers available and more than one hub. If ATL goes to hell for WX, then you might get stuck, whereas they could potentially put you on a AA flight through DFW.

JungleJetDriver

Completely understand the need for this. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge.

AU MD FLYER

I would suggest to go ahead and interview, get hired, and assigned a class date before deciding against eliminating the job based on your "home base" airport. If you are 2 hours from Tallahassee, FL (TLH) then you meet the company requirement and are "good to go".

So, if say Dothan, AL (DHN) ??? has flights that are comparable in price to TLH, then you stand a good chance of being able to use / depart from the DHN airport... but you would need to constantly remind the scheduling and travel departments of your preference.

The Travel Dept. loves to save money, and in a pinch, the Scheduling Dept. loves to have options to salvage a delayed or uncovered (last minute sick call) assignment. Therefore, occasionally you can use your location as a benefit to the company by being closer to DHN than TLH for commercial travel... like when you are at home on short call (SC) reserve and the company needs to travel you immediately.

Good luck...

JungleJetDriver

War Eagle! AU MD FLYER definitely going to put maximum effort into applying, interviewing and hopefully getting a class date with OAI. Any rumor of the application window opening soon? Looks like you triangulated my present position for holding.