Small nitpick, it’s 40 hours not 42. And even smaller is that it’s not free from duty, it’s free from an assignment. I’m guessing you probably meant that since you are talking about time at home.

yeah. They can always give you 3 four day trips in a row if each one has a 30 hour overnight.

I tried that. Never again. They found a way to work me pretty much every single day with 30 hour layovers to reset me.

Which fleet?

SLC NB historically has the bottom of list flying as lineholders. It's less for rolling thunder, which is very rare, but more for QOL. Used to be easy lifestyle, with more total days at home for the money. Also, lots of local folks who'd like <3 day trips, but 4/5 days are 70-80% of the bid package. Most RSV assignments are not 5/4 days, and you can finagle your block of RSV days to mostly be unavailable that long. A good share of RSV assignments are easy, with DH only starts/finishes and low block/credit ratio (broken up rotations).

I hope whenever we finally get a new contract, we retain that TA'd provision for pay above guarantee for SCs. That'd really be nice extra $ for local guys, and probably divert most SCs away from the short-medium range commuters (huge QOL boost). Let alone dissincentivize CS from handing out gobs of needless SCs, just to do something with unusable LCs.

I am 20% and was close to getting a coverage award on reserve. Granted all senior guys realized how good reserve is on the 88.

Were they forced into a line or simply awarded a line because senior pilots bid reserve and the junior guys wanted a line? My category generally has the junior few guys flying a line as well. But I have never seen junior guys FORCED to a line, which is what I'm talking about here.

Agreed. I can sit SC at home and would happily volunteer for SC if it paid above guarantee.

I'm not sure what the bottom bids. But in my category, the bottom 5-15 have been lineholders. Usually more likely for senior guys to slurp up all the RSV lines in the slow season. Although, with FEB reserve ALV being 79:30, I'd assume fewer senior guys bid it as a winter vacation. Still ahowing bottom 8 with lines.

My commute is either a 4 hour drive or 1hr flight 4x daily. Finished a trip yesterday, had AM shortcall waiting for me on landing. So instead of going home, I'm in the lounge typing this. Fingers crossed I don't get SC again tomorrow. With that TA'd SCC above guarantee, I either never got this SC and I'm home right now, or I just had my hotel paid with a SCC. Decent little workrule

Has anyone (b) had their schedule posted on iCrew or micrew? Seems to be taking long than usual....

... until enough folks do the right thing and fatigue out when they should. I'm flying with too many people fighting through the tired because they're afraid of the man.