The Reserve Availability Periods (RAPs) are 15 hours long. I know a few guys that go back and forth. If you can handle sitting in the crew room 15 hours a day and fly back and forth it is doable. Miserable but doable. I'd still want a crashpad but you can stay in the LaQuinta for $50/night. I think the Courtyard by Marriott is around $57/night but that includes breakfast.

The biggest downside to RSV at CPZ is that crew scheduling will change your RAP period every day so there is little consistency. It typically gets earlier and earlier as the days roll on.

Bright side, you are automatically released at 1800 on your last day. If things are slow scheduling normally approves even earlier release than that.

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Good to know, thank you. Is there any form of pick up window for reserves to pick up open time in advance?

 

No, but you can see what's in open time and based off where you are in silo, you can have a good idea if your going to be used...

Example...you are in the 4 day silo with lowest amount of credit amongst the rest of the 4 day silo reserves and there is a 4 day trip in open time...good chances are your going flying

 

Excellent. Sounds like reserve is pretty manageable over there. Thanks for answering gentlemen.

 

I read earlier you can expect to be on reserve for about a year....any chance that could be going down if hiring continues?

 

If you are hired soon, reserve will be short (1-3 months). If you are hired later in the cycle, it will be until the next round of flows, which should be Jan 2015.

Right now, as an FO, you will not work much on reserve. This is because the FO side is overstaffed to accommodate the upgrades and flows with little disruption to operations. However, you can expect things to go back to our standard understaffed situation as soon as the flows leave - this is TSH we are talking about here after all.

On the CA side, we have been understaffed for years. I have been on reserve for the better part of 3 years, and I have only not been used ~25 days total in that time. I expect staffing to go back to that on the FO side before too long. Our flight ops department thinks that if we have just 1 reserve that is not used on any given day, then we are overstaffed...

 

Is compass still primarily hiring just prior 121?
Im part 91 corporate right now. Single engine mostly, but have 100+ in a King Air350 as SIC/flying empty legs. (cant legally log it though)
What is their multi time minimum? The page on APC says 100 but is that a hard set number? I know with AE if you apply with less that 50 it kicks you out of the online app.
How much weight does a few refferals from current Delta Captains hold? one was a capt for 26 years in the 757/767, and was most senior in the company when he retired last year. The other is in the 757 currently. Got another from an AA 777 capt. but I doubt that would help much since he is in a different airline.

 

As people always say, apply and see! If your time isn't legal to log then I'm quite certain you can't count it… They have a lot of applicants so I don't know how flexible they will be with the 100 hours ME unless you know some important people. As far as the LOR go, they definitely can't hurt your cause. Are they as good as knowing someone in the recruiting department? Probably not. But give it a shot. Good luck.

 

I came from a prior 135/91 background with no 121 and about 4000TT and I know of several others in the same boat. You'll be fine, but im sure the training would go easier for prior-121 types. I had zero referrals, didn't know one soul on property and I got hired. As the people have said prior to me, you won't know unless you apply. My advice to you, would be to get your stuff uploaded now so its on file, then update as you accumulate more time, etc. I was hired before the airlineapp site was being used, so I'm not sure exactly how that's changed the game, but the moral of the story, apply now, apply often, and good luck to you.

As for the commuting to reserve questions go, I would say in my personal experience, commuting your reserve line will be difficult and a crashpad would be necessary until your a lineholder. In my experience, if your lucky, you'll get a late RAP allowing you to commute in on day 1, as previous CP folks have said, between 12-2pm, CS will call you and either give you your trip assignments if you have one, or, most likely, re-adjust your RAP to an earlier period. The third to last day, I usually got a call for a CDO the following evening, which IMO was awesome because you were untouchable after a CDO on your last two days of reserve and you were outta there the following morning. Also, and others have mentioned this, if you keep an eye on flica, you will have a VERY good idea of where you stand with opentime trip assignments and the Low Time, First Out policy in the SILOs keeps things fairly simple so there is plenty of transparency in knowing where you stand with trip assignments on reserve. Good luck to all the new-hires and those of you interviewing. I think you'll enjoy your time here.

 

As far as the LOR, unless those people know someone I don't think it would make a difference if it was a Commutair FO or a Delta Capt. They had more pull it seemed when CP was wholly owned but I doubt it does now. Still good to have LORs though so don't get me wrong. Apply and see!

An aside, how was he number one on the 75 at 26 years?